Colorado Plateau

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geologic region physiographic province plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a high, arid region of the southwestern United States renowned for its layered sedimentary rock formations, deep canyons, and iconic national parks such as the Grand Canyon, Zion, and Arches.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Colorado Plateau region	4
Grand Canyon region	4
Colorado Plateau (at southern end)	1
Colorado Plateau (portion)	1
Colorado Plateau province	1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geologic region ⓘ physiographic province ⓘ plateau ⓘ
area	about 337000 square kilometers ⓘ
borderedBy	Basin and Range Province ⓘ Rio Grande Rift ⓘ Rocky Mountains ⓘ
climate	arid ⓘ semiarid ⓘ
contains	Arches National Park ⓘ Black Mesa ⓘ Bryce Canyon National Park ⓘ Canyonlands National Park ⓘ Capitol Reef National Park ⓘ Four Corners region ⓘ Glen Canyon National Recreation Area ⓘ Grand Canyon National Park ⓘ Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument ⓘ surface form: Grand Staircase Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument ⓘ Horseshoe Bend ⓘ Kaiparowits Plateau ⓘ Lake Powell ⓘ Mesa Verde National Park ⓘ Monument Valley (Arizona portion) ⓘ surface form: Monument Valley Navajo Nation ⓘ surface form: Navajo Nation lands Petrified Forest National Park ⓘ San Rafael Swell ⓘ Zion National Park ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
drainedBy	Colorado River ⓘ Green River ⓘ San Juan River ⓘ
elevation	about 1500 to 3000 meters above sea level ⓘ
geologicHistory	Cenozoic incision by Colorado River system ⓘ extensive Mesozoic eolian deposition ⓘ marine transgressions and regressions ⓘ
geology	Cenozoic volcanic rocks ⓘ Mesozoic sedimentary rocks ⓘ Paleozoic sedimentary rocks ⓘ dominantly layered sedimentary rocks ⓘ relatively undeformed strata ⓘ
highestPoint	Henry Mountains region ⓘ
knownFor	arches and natural bridges ⓘ colorful rock layers ⓘ deep canyons ⓘ high desert landscapes ⓘ mesas and buttes ⓘ
locatedIn	Arizona ⓘ Colorado ⓘ New Mexico ⓘ southwestern United States ⓘ surface form: Southwestern United States Utah ⓘ
majorEcosystemType	cold desert ⓘ
notableRockFormations	Kaibab Limestone ⓘ Kayenta Formation ⓘ Morrison Formation ⓘ Navajo Sandstone ⓘ Supai Group ⓘ Navajo Sandstone ⓘ surface form: Wingate Sandstone
partOf	Intermontane Plateaus ⓘ North American Cordillera ⓘ
tectonicSetting	relatively stable crustal block ⓘ
uplift	Cenozoic regional uplift ⓘ
vegetation	pinyon–juniper woodland ⓘ sagebrush steppe ⓘ

Referenced by (42)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Great Basin → borders → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Sonoran Desert → borders → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Basin and Range Province → boundedBy → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Arizona → contains → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau (portion)

Four Corners region → contains → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

southwestern United States → contains → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

subject surface form: Southwestern United States

Havasupai people → culturalRegion → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Rio Grande Rift → formsBoundaryBetween → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Mogollon Rim → formsEdgeOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Utah → hasDesertRegion → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Mountain States → hasMajorPlateau → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Interior West → includes → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Intermontane Plateaus → includes → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Ancestral Puebloans → locatedIn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Monument Valley (Arizona portion) → locatedIn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Petrified Forest National Park → locatedIn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Zuni Reservation → locatedIn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau region

Hopi Reservation → locatedInDesert → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau region

Canyonlands National Park → locatedInPhysiographicProvince → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Flagstaff → locatedOn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Hovenweep National Monument → locatedOn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Painted Desert → locatedOn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Havasupai Indian Reservation → locatedWithin → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Nevada–Utah state line → nearbyPhysiographicProvince → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau (at southern end)

Bryce Canyon National Park → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Canyonlands National Park → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Coconino County, Arizona → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Four Corners region → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau province

Grand Canyon National Park → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Havasu Canyon → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau region

Painted Desert → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Supai, Arizona → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Colorado Plateau region

Zion National Park → partOf → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Mohave County, Arizona → partlyLocatedIn → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

pinyon jay → rangeIncludes → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Arches National Park → region → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Walapai language → region → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

Havasupai people → traditionalTerritory → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grand Canyon region

Hualapai people → traditionalTerritory → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grand Canyon region

ute → traditionalTerritory → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

subject surface form: Ute language

Walapai → traditionalTerritory → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grand Canyon region

Walapai language → traditionalTerritory → Colorado Plateau ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grand Canyon region