The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park
by Stanley William Lohman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lohman, Stanley William, 1907-
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Canyonlands National Park (Utah) -- Guidebooks
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51048
- Release Date
- January 27, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Geologic Story of Canyonlands NATIONAL PARK
- 2.Contents
- 3.Illustrations
- 4.A New Park is Born
- 5.Major Powell’s River Expeditions
- 6.Early History — Prehistoric people — Late arrivals
- 7.Geographic Setting
- 8.Rocks and Landforms
- 9.How to See the Park
- 10.The High Mesas — Island in the Sky — DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK — NORTH ENTRANCE — SHAFER AND WHITE RIM TRAILS — GRAND VIEW POINT — GREEN RIVER OVERLOOK — UPHEAVAL DOME — Hatch Point — NEEDLES OVERLOOK — CANYONLANDS OVERLOOK — U-3 LOOP — ANTICLINE OVERLOOK — Orange Cliffs
- 11.The Benchlands — The Maze and Land of Standing Rocks — The Needles district — SALT, DAVIS, AND LAVENDER CANYONS — THE NEEDLES AND THE GRABENS
- 12.Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers — Entrenched and cutoff meanders — Green River — Colorado River
- 13.Summary of Geologic History
- 14.Additional Reading
- 15.Acknowledgments
- 16.Selected references
- 17.Footnotes
- 18.Index
- 19.Transcriber’s Notes
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