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Glen Canyon Institute
Hydrology and Dam Safety. Glen Canyon Dam is anchored in Navajo Sandstone, an aeolian deposit that has a propensity for spalling off and breaking apart. Geologists ... together downstream, and monitor landslides upstream. Reclamation records are replete with instances of falling Navajo sandstone and failure of joints once they were inundated with water. Safety has always been ...
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The Colorado Plateau Region (part 1 of 4)
Navajo Sandstone Dome in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. It's floor is covered with bright orange ... form 10 foot-high dunes, from which rises a 30 foot-high monolith of white sandstone.Photo © 1985 Ray Wheeler. Asked to explain what makes the Colorado Plateau unique, geographers grow ...
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The Colorado Plateau Region (part 2 of 4)
Utah Wilderness Coalition, Salt Lake City, 1990, p. 97-104. Vast—and Intimate Coconino sandstone formation along S. Kaibab Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. Photo © 1999 Eldon L. ... of them all: a strange fusion of the vast and the intimate. Natural Alcove in Navajo Sandstone, Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Photo © 1985 Ray Wheeler. Bowl, basin, canyon, alcove. Everywhere ...
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At Home in the Breath
River continues its 13-million-year labor of cutting the gorge of Zion canyon. The Navajo sandstone of the towering cliffs across the chasm glows burnt sienna in the late afternoon wash ... a fictional character writes: “Other native North American peoples have refined similar ideas; but the Navajo conception is particularly successful in relating the idea of the individual to the concept of ...
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At Home in the Breath
River continues its 13-million-year labor of cutting the gorge of Zion canyon. The Navajo sandstone of the towering cliffs across the chasm glows burnt sienna in the late afternoon wash ... a fictional character writes: “Other native North American peoples have refined similar ideas; but the Navajo conception is particularly successful in relating the idea of the individual to the concept of ...
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Press Release: Global Warming - Drought boosts campaign to drain one of the West's biggest reservoirs, By John Krist, Environmental News Network, Friday, August 27, 2004
"Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, ... of gracefully arched concrete wedged into a narrow canyon of Navajo sandstone. It is 710 feet tall from foundation to crest and ... up camp on a sandy bench beneath an overhanging wall of sandstone. For four days, the group explored Coyote Gulch and lower ...
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National Geographic Adventure Guide: Zion National Park
Granite Zion, since the North Fork of the Virgin River had pretty well finished carving Navajo sandstone into a wonderland of towers, temples, and buttresses millions of years before glaciers got to ...
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National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Classic Hikes: Utah's Buckskin Gulch
Colorado Plateau, beginning with the dramatic red rock of the Navajo sandstone and ending with the strata of the Moenave and Chinle formations. Traveling downstream through each ...
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Maguire Daisy Proposed for Delisting
The species occurs predominately within the Navajo Sandstone formation which has low potential for oil and gas development and uranium mining. Most mineral ...
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Maguire daisy index
Navajo Sandstone formation. Individuals have been located within steep, narrow, dry, rocky, and sandy canyon or wash bottoms of the Wingate, Chinle, and Navajo Sandstone formations; sandstone walls of the Wingate, Navajo, and Cutler formations; cracks of large boulders; sliderock; and atop mesas of the Navajo Sandstone. ...
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