The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park

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Stanley William Lohman

Contents

Illustrations

A New Park is Born

Major Powell's River Expeditions

Early History

Geographic Setting

Rocks and Landforms

How to See the Park

The High Mesas

The Benchlands

Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers

Summary of Geologic History

Additional Reading

Acknowledgments

Selected references

Footnotes

Index

Transcriber's Notes

LOOKING NORTH FROM EAST WALL OF DEVILS LANE, just south of the Silver Stairs. Needles are Cedar Mesa Sandstone. Junction Butte and Grand View Point lie across Colorado River in background.

The Geologic Story of Canyonlands NATIONAL PARK

The Geologic Story of
Canyonlands
NATIONAL PARK

By S. W. Lohman
Graphics
by John R. Stacy

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1327

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
V. E. McKelvey, Director

Library of Congress catalog-card No. 74-600043

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR · MARCH 3, 1849

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1974

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