Colorado Plateau, Southwestern USA

The Colorado Plateau is a geological province in the southwestern United States, located in the Four Corners of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. It is bounded by the Rocky Mountains to the north and east, and the Basin and Range Province to the west and south. Having suffered relatively little deformation through geological time, the stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau is exceptionally well preserved. The landscape is mostly characterized by hot, high desert plateaus and dramatic weathering and erosion structures, dominated by the massive Grand Canyon.


Information source: United States Geological Survey

Image: The Organ, a rock structure in the Colorado Plateau of Utah, USA. Source: Sanjay Acharya, Wikimedia Commons.

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