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The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States.It is named in honor of Haden Edwards. [2] It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east; the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north; and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west. [3]
Mount Edwards is a high mountain summit in the Rocky Mountains' Front Range of North America. The 13,856-foot (4,223 m) thirteener is located in Arapaho National Forest , 7.6 miles (12.3 km) southwest ( bearing 223°) of the Town of Georgetown , Colorado , United States , on the Continental Divide between Clear Creek and Summit counties .
A map of the Colorado Plateau. The Four Corners region and the Colorado Plateau.. The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States.
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
The terrain mainly consists of basins broken by numerous small mountain ranges.. There are several larger mountain ranges in the Chihuahuan Desert, including the Sierra Madre, the Sierra del Carmen, the Organ Mountains, the Franklin Mountains, the Sacramento Mountains, the Chisos Mountains, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the Davis Mountains.
The Balcones Fault is in one of the lowest-risk zones for earthquakes in the United States. [ 6 ] The surface expression of the fault is the Balcones Escarpment, [ 7 ] which forms the eastern boundary of the Texas Hill Country and the western boundary of the Texas Coastal Plain, and consists of cliffs and cliff-like structures.
Edwards and Trinity Aquifers map. The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. [2] Located on the eastern edge of the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas, it is the source of drinking water for two million people, and is the primary water supply for agriculture and industry in the aquifer's region.
Grizzly Peak is set 17 miles (27 km) west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. [5] The peak is located 33 miles (53 km) north of Durango and 4.35 miles (7.00 km) northwest of Engineer Mountain, on land managed by San Juan National Forest. [5]