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Geology of the Zion and Kolob Canyons Area
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The geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area includes nine known exposed formations, all visible in Zion National Park in the U.S. state of Utah. Together, these formations represent about 150 million years of mostly Mesozoic-aged sedimentation in that part of North America. Part of a super-sequence of rock units called the Grand Staircase, the formations exposed in the Zion and Kolob area were deposited in several different environments that range from the warm shallow seas of the Kaibab and Moenkopi formations, streams and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations to the large deserts of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and dry near shore environments of the Carmel Formation. Subsequent uplift of the Colorado Plateau slowly raised these formations much higher than where they were deposited. This steepened the stream gradient of the ancestral rivers and other streams on the plateau. The faster-moving streams took advantage of uplift-created joints in the rocks to remove all Cenozoic-aged formations and cut gorges into the plateaus.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786130239466
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Sprache Englisch
- Genre Geowissenschaften
- Anzahl Seiten 124
- Größe H220mm x B150mm x T7mm
- Jahr 2009
- EAN 9786130239466
- Format Fachbuch
- ISBN 978-613-0-23946-6
- Titel Geology of the Zion and Kolob Canyons Area
- Untertitel Formation (stratigraphy), Zion National Park, Sedimentation, Grand Staircase, Stream, Lake, Desert, Colorado Plateau, Cenozoic, Lava, Cinder cone, Virgin River, Sedimentary rock, Weathering
- Gewicht 201g
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
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