But for now, there is still plenty of rock left in Red Rock country, so let's climb to the highest rock layer on the Colorado Plateau-- the Book Cliffs.

Most of western Colorado lies within the Colorado Plateau. This high-desert formed millions of years ago when tectonic plates slowly pushed together, uplifting stacked layers of sand, silt and mud ...

In between, rivers may have drained off the Colorado Plateau to the north, through Idaho and beyond. Or they may have ponded in huge lakes like today’s 4,400-square-kilometer Great Salt Lake.

The Colorado Plateau, in western Colorado, southeastern Utah, Northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico, is commonly called red rock country or canyon country, both referring to formations of ...

Geosphere covers Mexico, the Colorado Plateau, Russia, and offshore New Jersey Geosphere articles posted online Feb. 21, 2014 Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

Rock layers preserve record of ... Formation places an important new constraint on uplift of a broad region from the San Andreas fault to the western Colorado Plateau over the past 5 million ...

Colorado National Monument was created in 1911 to protect one of the American Southwest’s most iconic landscapes. Located just west of Grand Junction, the 32-square-mile monument features slender ...

Long after tectonic plate movement has created mountains, forces such as weather and river erosion can continue to shape a landscape. One such landscape is the Colorado Plateau, which spans more ...

My goal on a hike last week was to photograph a series of inaccessible alcoves high on a wall in the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness on the Colorado Plateau. I returned with a photo, but the most ...

Rock layers preserve record of ancient sea tides near Blythe, California. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 12 / 161209100404.htm ...