Summary
The 130,000 square miles of deep river-cut canyons and exposed wind-scoured arches, the section of the earth that in Utah is called the Plateau Province, is as big a puzzle to geologists as it is awesome to any human interloper captured by the vistas of its environs.
Setting parts of the area aside as national parks -- the Grand Canyon, Arches, Zions among them -- is a testament to their unique grandeur. Determining how the entire Colorado Plateau came to be and has eroded into a geologic wonder of the world has been a tantalizing question for generations of scientists.See the full content of this document
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Heat May Explain Why West Is Grand
Three of them, one from Utah State University who was stunned as a boy by the stark, chlorophyll-deprived alter-ego of his green, rolling-hille...
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