LOOKING NORTH FROM EAST WALL OF DEVILSLANE, just south of the Silver Stairs. Needles areCedar Mesa Sandstone. Junction Butte and GrandView Point lie across Colorado River in background.
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. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1974
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402—Price $2.65 (paper covers)
Stock Number 2401-02498
Contents
- Page
- A new park is born 1
- Major Powell’s river expeditions 4
- Early history 9
- Prehistoric people 9
- Late arrivals 14
- Geographic setting 17
- Rocks and landforms 20
- How to see the park 26
- The high mesas 27
- Island in the Sky 27
- Dead Horse Point State Park 30
- North entrance 34
- Shafer and White Rim Trails 34
- Grand View Point 36
- Green River Overlook 43
- Upheaval Dome 43
- Hatch Point 46
- Needles Overlook 47
- Canyonlands Overlook 48
- U-3 Loop 49
- Anticline Overlook 50
- Orange Cliffs 54
- The Benchlands 58
- The Maze and Land ...
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