MY HEART SANK at the sight of my friend Avery's mountain bike, its wheels in the air, the handlebars resting in the hot, sandy soil of Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau. Avery was fine—there'd been no ...

The Epic Journey of Geology 310's Crew, Summer 2008 Traipsing in the Blue Ridge. Scuttling about that incredible granite exposure at Richmond’s Belle Isle. A departmental trip to the Potomac River’s ...

ON the Colorado Plateau of Arizona and Utah there are exposed, as a result of erosion, sedimentary strata substantially undisturbed since deposition, representing almost every period of geological ...

The central Colorado Plateau contains an exceptional density of cultural resources. Historically, however, archaeological investigations have overlooked the late Pleistocene and early Holocene record ...

The Southwestern Naturalist, Vol. 62, No. 1 (March 2017), pp. 14-28 (15 pages) Fossils of Bison (bison) are scarce on the Colorado Plateau, especially in and around the Greater Grand Canyon Region.

There are nine national parks within the Colorado Plateau, which straddles the corners of four south-western states, and many national monuments, most of which are striking geological features, such ...

Nearly the full length of Lake Powell on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona is visible in this photograph shot by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, on Sept. 6, ...