Hiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners RegionHiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners Region takes curious hikers on a journey through time that explores the Colorado Plateau-an immense land of canyons, mesas, and isolated mountain ranges in the American Southwest. Hopkins' stunning color photography brings the Four Corners Region to life in dazzling detail. |
Contents
The Mogollon Rim | 44 |
Fossil Springs The Ancestral Mogollon Rim | 48 |
North Wilson Trail in Oak Creek Canyon A Tale of Two Canyons | 52 |
The San Francisco Volcanic Field | 57 |
Inner Basin San Francisco Mountains Glaciated Caldera | 60 |
Bonito Lava Flow Arizonas Youngest Lava Flow at Sunset Crater | 64 |
Grand Falls Lava Meets the Little Colorado River | 67 |
Red Mountain Anatomy of a Cinder Cone | 71 |
Mount Hillers 11 Laccoliths of the Henry Mountains | 168 |
Dry Fork Coyote Gulch Sandstone Slot Canyons | 171 |
Lower Calf Creek Falls Desert Oasis between Sandstone Cliffs | 174 |
Kodachrome Basin Mysterious Sandstone Pipes | 176 |
Slot Canyons along the East Kaibab Monocline | 180 |
The high plateaus | 183 |
Bryce Canyon Fairyland of Hoodoos | 186 |
Table Cliffs plateau Atop the Grand Staircase | 191 |
The Grand Canyon | 74 |
Horseshoe Mesa Hike through Time below the South Rim | 79 |
Cape Final North Rim View of the Grand Canyon | 85 |
Powell Plateau North Rims Island in the Sky | 88 |
Toroweap Point Western Grand Canyons Lava Cascades | 92 |
The Painted Desert | 96 |
Blue Mesa Stone Trees in Petrified Forest National Park | 98 |
Canyon De Chelly Ancient WindBlown Dunes and the Paleozoic Mesozoic Unconformity | 101 |
Coal Mine Canyon Ghosts and Painted Spires | 105 |
Monument Valley Red Rock Buttes and Mesas | 109 |
Coyote Buttes Exhumed Desert Sand Dunes | 112 |
Utahs Plateau hikes | 117 |
The Slickrock Country | 118 |
Honaker Trail Entrenched Meanders of the San Juan River | 123 |
Twin Towers Stone Ruins in Hovenweep National Monument | 128 |
Natural Bridges The Bridges of White Canyon | 131 |
Fisher Towers Red Rock Towers of Conglomerate | 137 |
Delicate Arch Sandstone Icon in Arches National Park | 140 |
Devils Garden Standing Stones in Arches National Park | 145 |
Upheaval Dome Salt Dome or Meteorite Impact Crater? | 150 |
Little Grand Canyon Heart of the San Rafael Swell | 154 |
San Rafael Reef World of Standing Stone | 157 |
Goblin Valley Hoodoo Playground | 160 |
Rim Overlook Sandstone Cliffs of Capitol Reef | 162 |
Strike Valley Overlook Tilted Rocks along Waterpocket Fold | 165 |
Cedar Breaks The Colorado Plateaus Faulted Western Rim | 193 |
Zion Canyon The Subway along the Left Fork of North Creek | 196 |
Coral pink Sand Dunes Recycled Jurassic Sand | 200 |
Bullion Canyon Waterfalls and a Glaciated Hanging Valley | 204 |
Colorados Plateau Hikes | 207 |
The Western Slope | 208 |
Harpers Corner BirdsEye View of Faults and Folds | 211 |
Monument Canyon Sandstone Monuments and the Great Unconformity | 214 |
Unaweep Canyon Ancient River Channel and the Great Unconformity | 217 |
North Vista trail Black Canyon of the Gunnison | 222 |
Mesa Verde Sandstones of the Cretaceous Seaway | 225 |
New Mexicos Plateau Hikes | 230 |
Ship Rocks Rocks from the Deep | 234 |
Bisti Badlands Fantasy in Stone | 237 |
Chaco Canyon Ancient Voices and Ancient Shorelines | 239 |
Ghost Ranch New Mexicos Red Rock Country | 242 |
Frijoles Canyon Waterfalls and Volcanoes at Bandelier | 246 |
Tent Rocks Volcanic Landscape in the Jemez Mountains | 250 |
El Malpais Lava Tubes of the Bandera Flow | 254 |
Glossary | 258 |
Appendices | 267 |
B Key References | 269 |
C Geologic Maps | 274 |
D Addresses and Contract Information | 277 |
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Ancestral ancient Arizona basalt basement rocks boulders Bridge Bryce Canyon canyon walls carved Chinle Formation climbs Colorado Plateau Colorado River colorful Cretaceous Cretaceous seaway cross-beds deposited DISTANCE ELEVATION drive east edge Entrada Sandstone eroded erosion eruption fault feet DIFFICULTY follow formed fossils GEOLOGIC MAP geologists Grand Canyon Gunnison hike Jurassic Kaibab Kayenta KEY REFERENCE landforms landscape Laramide orogeny lava flows ledge limestone look magma Mesa metamorphic miles round trip million years ago minerals Mogollon Rim Monocline Monument Valley National Monument Navajo Sandstone Oak Creek parking area Permian petrified Precambrian red rock road rock layers route San Rafael sand dunes sediment sedimentary layers sedimentary rocks shale slickrock slot canyon surface switchbacks Tent Rocks TOPOGRAPHIC MAP USGS Toroweap Trail Guide trailhead Triassic tuff turn left turn right Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Plateau Unconformity Upheaval Dome Uplift Utah Utah's Volcanic Field volcanic rocks wash Waterpocket Fold wind-blown winds Wingate Sandstone
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Page 13 - It is a landscape of deep canyons, layercake cliffs, and red rock mesas in the Four Corners region where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.
Page 9 - Geology is an invitation to explore the magical landscapes of the Four Corners region where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet. Also known as the Colorado Plateau, this is an area of "inyour-face" geology where colorful rock layers lie naked under the cobalt blue southwestern sky.