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The Geologic Story of Colorado National Monument / Revised Edition

Chapter 106: Transcriber’s Notes
By Stanley William Lohman
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A clear, illustrated account explains the origin and development of the monument's rocks and landforms, tracing ancient basement rocks through Jurassic sandstones, Mesozoic deposits containing dinosaur-bearing beds, and younger sediments to the modern cliffs and canyons. The text highlights major gaps in the rock record and describes episodes of dune and marine deposition, peat and lake deposits, uplift, faulting and monocline formation, and the erosional processes that carved the present landscape. Short historical notes recount early human activity and park formation. Maps, photographs, diagrams, field trips, and a concise reference list support both casual visitors and nontechnical readers.

U
Uinta Lake, 63
Unaweep Canyon, 72, 73, 78, 80
ancestral, 76
piracy, drawing, 75
view, 82
Uncompahgre arch, 61, 72, 73, 77, 78
drawing, 75
Uncompahgre Complex, 8
Uncompahgre Highland, 26
Uncompahgre Plateau, 26, 28, 49, 77, 107
Unconformities, 26, 35, 54, 104
views, 37, 41, 54
U.S. Highway 6, 85, 88
U.S. Highway 24, 85
U.S. Highway 50, 85, 88, 122
U.S. Interstate 70, 63, 85, 96
Utah Highway 128, 120
Ute Canyon, 2, 3, 40, 45, 80, 119
Fallen Rock, view, 81
Liberty Cap, 108
Summerville Formation, 45
view, 110
Ute Canyon Trail, 108, 109
Ute Canyon View, Lower, 109
Ute Canyon View, Upper, 109
Ute Indians, 5, 10
V
Visitor Center, 5, 32, 40, 86, 102
view, 106
Volcanics, 18, 71
W
Walker Field, 85
Wasatch Formation, 63, 64, 129
Water, 14, 15, 79, 91
Entrada Sandstone, 15, 91, 116, 118
leaching action, 42, 44
Morrison Formation, 15, 118
Redlands, The, 14, 88, 94
Wingate Sandstone, 15, 91, 95
West Creek, ancestral, 76
West Entrance, 85, 89, 95
White Rock, view, 92
Whitewater, 83
Window Rock, 102
view, 103
Window Rock Nature Trail, 102, 104
Wingate Drive, 92
view, 93
Wingate Sandstone, 29, 79, 89, 96, 128, 129
cave, 14
desert varnish, 32
faulting, 97
views, 66, 68, 69, 89, 90, 92, 93, 107
folds, view, 66, 102
petroglyphs, view, 9
Rim Rock Drive, 99, 104, 116
road cuts, 99, 116
sand dunes, view, 30
views, 14, 19, 30, 31, 34, 66, 69, 82, 100, 106, 114, 115, 117, 122
water, 15, 91, 95
Worms, 27
Wupatki National Monument, 129
Z
Zion National Park, 36, 38, 129

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Transcriber’s Notes

  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • Corrected a few palpable typos.
  • Included a transcription of the text within some images.
  • Renumbered footnotes, and modified references to them accordingly.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.
  • The HTML version contains relative hyperlinks to these companion volumes, so that offline copies can be interlinked:
  • Canyonlands National Park, Gutenberg eBook #51048,
  • Arches National Park, Gutenberg eBook #51116.

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