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The Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with scattered areas of forests. In the south-west corner of the Colorado Plateau lies the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Much of the Plateau's landscape is related to the Grand Canyon in both appearance and geologic history.
The transition zone is dominated by the Mogollon Plateau at the southern edge of the Coconino Plateau of the Flagstaff region and the San Francisco volcanic field; the Mogollon Rim borders the plateau which extends from Oak Creek Canyon on the west, to the east at the highest elevations of Arizona in the central and western White Mountains.
The Colorado Plateau is a semi-arid, mostly flat-lying region ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 feet (1524 m to 2438 m) in elevation, [2] centered on the Four Corners region. The Colorado Plateau encompasses an area of approximately 140,000 square miles (360,000 km 2). [23] It consists of northern Arizona, except for a small portion of northwestern ...
The Four Corners region is the red circle in this map. The Four Corners states are highlighted in orange. Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico.
In northeastern Arizona is Monument Valley, where sharp spires, obelisks, and tower-like masses of rock rise hundreds of feet above their surroundings. At the eastern margin of the Canyon Lands is the Mesa Verde , a huge cuesta that has been deeply dissected by streams.
Thus the Virgin River, a northern tributary of the Colorado River, has cut a vertical slit, 1000 ft. deep, hardly wider at the top than at the bottom, in the heavy Triassic sandstones of southern Utah. However the most famous example is the Grand Canyon of Arizona, eroded by the Colorado river across the uplifted platform of Carboniferous ...
Colorado Plateau: Colorado Plateau: Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon: Kaibab Plateau: Kaibab Plateau: Lower Colorado River Valley: Lower Colorado River regions Regions below Hoover Dam south to the Colorado River Delta(Mexico) see: Category:Lower Colorado River Valley: Madrean sky islands: Madrean sky islands, Southern Arizona, near Tucson, Nogales ...
Colorado Plateau (14 C, 348 P) Pages in category "Plateaus of Arizona" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.