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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.
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.Cliff Canyon, as seen from the Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde mug, made in 13th century, MVNP museum collections. The Mesa Verde Region is a portion of the Colorado Plateau in the United States that extends through parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.
The Colorado Plateau shrublands ecoregion defined by the World Wildlife Fund corresponds closely to the Colorado Plateaus and Arizona/New Mexico Plateau ecoregions delineated by James M. Omernik for the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The salt desert shrub is a plant community or vegetation type found in the Colorado Plateau and Canyonlands region. [1]: 3 It is characterized by very alkaline and saline soils and plants that can tolerate these conditions (). [1]
A large plateau in North America is the Colorado Plateau, which covers about 337,000 km 2 (130,000 sq mi) in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. [9] In northern Arizona and southern Utah the Colorado Plateau is bisected by the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. This came to be over 10 million years ago, a river was already there, though ...
Physiographic regions of the U.S. Interior; the Intermontane Plateaus are marked 20 (Columbia Plateau), 21 (Colorado Plateau) and 22 (Basin and Range). In the context of physical geography, the Intermontane Plateaus is one of eight physiographic regions of the contiguous United States.
The Navajo volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field located in the Four Corners region of the United States, in the central part of the Colorado Plateau.The volcanic field consists of over 80 volcanoes and associated intrusions of unusual potassium-rich compositions, with an age range of 26.2 to 24.7 million years ().