Index
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] X Y [Z]
[Italic page numbers indicate major references]
A Abajo Mountains [21], [113] Additions to the park [1] All American Man pictograph [9], [70] Anasazi people [9], [12], [68] Anderson Bottom [93] Angel Arch [24], [68] Anticline Overlook [31], [50] Arches [64], [70] Angel [24], [68] Canyon Viewpoint [36] Castle [68] Druid [24], [76] Gothic [68] in Cedar Mesa Sandstone [66], [115] in Navajo Sandstone [36] Little Rainbow Bridge [98] origin [65] Pinto [98] Wooden Shoe [66] Arches National Park [28], [116]
B Beef Basin [9], [75] Benchlands [58] Bighorn Mesa [46] Bishop, Francis Marion, quotation [106] Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument [115] Bonita Bend [57], [93] Bootlegger Canyon [98] Bowknot Bend [85], [88] Bryce Canyon National Park [116] Bureau of Land Management [46] Buttes, Junction [27] Merrimac and Monitor [28] of the Cross [92] Turks Head [40], [43], [93]
C Campgrounds, Hatch Point [48] near Green River Overlook [43] Peek-a-boo Spring [68] Squaw Flat [2], [63] Windwhistle [47] Cane Creek anticline [31], [50], [53], [100] Canyon de Chelly National Monument [115] Canyon King [98] Canyon Rims Recreation Area [47] Canyon Viewpoint Arch [36] Canyonlands Overlook [48] Canyonlands Resort [2], [63] Canyons, access roads [8] Bootlegger [98] Cataract [5], [85], [108] Colorado River [85] Cyclone [79], [80] Davis [64], [70] Desolation [8] Elephant [76] Green River [85] Horse [64], [67] Horseshoe [1], [9] Kane Springs [48] Labyrinth [5], [90] Lathrop [34], [36] Lavender [64], [70] Lockhart [49] Lower Red Lake [80] Millard [57] Mineral [29] Range [58] Red Lake [80] Salt [9], [64], [66] Sevenmile [28] Stillwater [5], [40], [43], [92] Taylor [91] Trough Springs [48] Upheaval [46] Capitol Reef National Park [115] Castle Arch [68] Cataract Canyon [5], [85], [108] Cave Spring Environmental Trail [14], [66] Cave Spring line camp [2], [14] Cedar Breaks National Monument [116] [Cedar Mesa Sandstone] [47], [58], [63] arches [66], [115] potholes [36], [65] Chesler Park [75], [76] Chinle Formation [115] Moss Back Member [16], [62] Church Rock [60] Climate [23] Colorado National Monument [115] Colorado Plateau [17], [21], [114] Colorado River [96], [114] river runners’ guidebook [5] Confluence of Green and Colorado Rivers [17], [80], [106] Confluence Overlook [80] Cutler Formation [48], [54], [62], [98] Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member [47] de Chelly Sandstone Member [115] Organ Rock Tongue [40] White Rim Sandstone Member [34] See also [Cedar Mesa Sandstone]; [White Rim Sandstone]. Cyclone Canyon [79], [80]
D Davis Canyon [64], [70] Dead Horse Point [30], [31], [101] Dead Horse Point State Park [30] Desolation Canyon [8] Devils Kitchen [75] Devils Lane [75], [80] Devils Pocket [75] Dinosaur National Monument [8], [114] Druid Arch [24], [76] Dugout Ranch [14], [61]
E Elaterite Basin [58] Elephant Canyon [76] Elephant Hill [2], [75] Entrada Sandstone [28], [60], [115], [116] Entrances, Island in the Sky district [2], [28], [34] Needles district [2], [60] Ernies Country [58] Erosion [21], [64], [114] landslide [106] Needles district [63] rate [21], [90] volume of rock removed [21], [112]
F Facies changes [34], [47], [58], [113] Faults [48], [63], [79], [104] Floods [67] Fort Bottom [91], [92] Fossils [76], [101] Four-wheel-drive roads. See [Jeep trails]. Fremont people [9], [12]
G Gas [53], [112] Geologic history [20], [112] Glen Canyon National Recreation Area [115] Goblin Valley State Park [116] Goose Neck [30], [31], [101] Gothic Arch [68] Grand Canyon National Park [115] Grand (Colorado) River [17], [96] Grand View Point [40] Grays Pasture [29], [36] Green River [87] Overlook [43] River runners’ guidebook [4] Ground water [64], [65]
H Hatch Point [46] Hatch Point Campground [48] Henry Mountains [21], [114] Hermosa Formation, Paradox Member [53], [79], [108] History, Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch [14], [57], [92] cliff dwellers [9] cliff dwellings [97] cowboys [14], [30] first siting by white man [4] mapping [117] Powell river expeditions [4], [87] railroads [96] trapper Julien [90] Horse Canyon [64], [67] Horseshoe Canyon [1], [9] Horseshoe Canyon Detached Unit [54] Horsethief Trail [29], [36], [90] Hurrah Pass [48], [50]
I Igneous rocks [20], [113] Indian Creek [61], [93], [101] Indian Creek State Park [12], [61] Indian ruins. See [Ruins]. Indians, Anasazi [9], [12], [68] Fremont [9], [12] Pueblo [9] Ute [12] Iron [23] Island in the Sky [27]
J Jackson Hole [90], [100] [Jeep trails], Davis Canyon [70] Elephant Hill [2], [75] Horse Canyon [67] Hurrah Pass [48] Island in the Sky district [36] Lavender Canyon [70] Needles district [2], [63], [75] Potash area [98] reason for building [16] Salt Canyon [66] Silver Stairs [2], [79], [80] SOB Hill [2], [75] west of Green River [54] Jennings, J. D., quotation [9], [12] Joint Trail [76] Joints [63], [79] Julien [90] Junction Butte [27]
K Kane Springs Canyon [48] Kayenta Formation [25], [54], [115] Keyhole Ruin [67] King’s Bottom syncline [50], [98]
L La Sal Mountains [21], [113] Labyrinth Canyon [5], [90] Lake Powell [23], [108] Land of Standing Rocks [58] Lathrop Canyon [34], [36] Lavender Canyon [64], [70] Little Rainbow Bridge [98] Lockhart Basin [49] Lockhart Canyon [49] Lohman, S. W., quotation [25] Lower Red Lake Canyon [80]
M Maps, geologic 117 satellite image [18] shaded relief [18] Meander anticline [79], [108] Merrimac and Monitor Buttes [28] Mesa Trail [36] Mesa Verde National Park [116] Mesas [27], [46] Metamorphic rocks [21] Metric conversion factors [1] Millard Canyon [57] Mineral Canyon [29] Mines, Atomic King [50] Mi Vida [16] potash [53], [98] School Section [13] 100 uranium [16], [29], [50], [100] Moab [16], [86], [96] Moab anticline [50] Moenkopi Formation [43], [58], [115] Monument Basin [40], [42] Monument Valley [115] Morrison Formation [114] Moss Back Member of Chinle Formation [16], [62] Mutschler, F. E., quotation [91]
N Natural Bridges National Monument [115] Navajo Sandstone [46], [98], [115], [116] arches [36] color [24] environment of deposition [20] resistance to erosion [25] Needles district [60] Needles Overlook [42], [47] Newell, Maxine, quotation [100] Newspaper Rock [12], [61] North Point [57]
O Oil [53], [100], [112] Old Spanish Trail [57], [108] Orange Cliffs [54] Organ Rock Tongue of Cutler Formation [40] Overlooks, Anticline [31], [50] Canyonlands [48] Confluence [80] Dead Horse Point [30], [31] Grand View Point [40] Green River [43] Needles [42], [47] U-3 loop [49]
P Paradox Basin [113] Paradox Member of Hermosa Formation [53], [79], [108], [113] Paul Bunyans Potty [67] Petrified Forest National Park [115] Petroglyphs [12], [97] Photography [3] Powell camera stations [5], [90], [93] Picnic sites [36], [46], [75] Pictographs [9], [12], [70] Pinto Arch [98] Porter, Elliot, quotation [87] Potash salts [53], [98], [113] Potholes [36], [65] Powell, John Wesley [4], [87] John Wesley, quotation [106] river expeditions [4], [87] Memorial Highway [8] Pueblo people [9]
Q Quicksand [66]
R Railroads [96], [98] Rainbow Bridge National Monument [115] Range Canyon [58] Red Lake Canyon [80] Rico Formation [76], [101] [Rincons] [86], [90] Anderson Bottom [93] Indian Creek [93], [101] Jackson Hole [90], [100] River trips [85], [86] Canyon King [98] early float [87], [88], [96] guidebooks [4], [88] Powell expeditions [4], [87] rapids [108] stern-wheeler [98] Rivers, Colorado [96], [114] Grand (Colorado) [17], [96] Green [87] cutoffs [86], [87] See also [Rincons]. meanders [85], [86] Rock column [20], [31] Rock folds, anticlines [98] Cane Creek anticline [31], [50], [53], [100] Kings Bottom syncline [50], [98] Meander anticline [79], [108] Moab anticline [50] oil and gas [53] potash salts [53] San Rafael Swell [116] Shafer dome [31], [49], [53], [101] synclines [43], [49], [100] Upheaval Dome [43] Rock fractures, faults [48], [63], [79], [104] joints [63], [79] origin [79] Rock inscriptions [12] Rock layers, dip [54], [85], [90], [97] Rock paintings [9] Ruin Park [9], [75] [Ruins] [64], [70] Anasazi [9], [68] Fort Bottom [91] granaries [9], [68] Keyhole [67] Tower [9], [68]
S Salt beds [43], [53], [79], [108], [113] Salt Canyon [9], [64], [66] Salt Creek [106] San Rafael Desert [54] San Rafael Swell [116] Sedimentary rocks [20], [112] ages [20], [112] cement [25], [65] color [23] elaterite [58] environments of deposition [20], [113] facies changes [34], [47], [58], [113] fossils [76], [101] gypsum [79], [113] “layer-cake geology” [23] salt [43], [53], [79], [108], [113] sculpture by erosion [25] Sevenmile Canyon [28] Shafer Basin [100] Shafer dome [31], [49], [53], [101] Shafer limestone [31], [54] Shafer Trail [34] Silver Stairs [2], [79], [80] Six-Shooter Peaks [61] SOB Hill [2], [75] Spanish Bottom [80], [85], [108] Spanish explorers [12] Springs [36] Squaw Flat Campground [2], [63] Steer Mesa [46] Stillwater Canyon [5], [40], [43], [92] Sunset Crater National Monument [116]
T Taylor Canyon [91] The Doll House [58] The Fins [58] The Grabens [73] age [79] Cyclone Canyon [79], [80] Devils Lane [75], [80] Devils Pocket [75] origin [79] The Loop [85], [104] The Maze [58] The Neck [27], [34] The Needles [73] The Portal [97] The Slide [106] The Spur [54] “Three Worlds” [24] Thundershowers [67] Tower Ruin [9], [68] Trails, Cave Spring Environmental [14], [66] foot [63], [64], [70], [73], [76], [98] horse [54] Horsethief [29], [36], [90] jeep. See [Jeep trails]. Joint [76] Mesa [36] Old Spanish [57], [108] Shafer [34] to Druid Arch [76] to Upheaval Dome [46] White Rim [34] Transportation in the park [26] Trough Springs Canyon [48] Turks Head [40], [43], [93] Twain, Mark, quotation [87]
U U-3 loop [49] Uncompahgre highland [54], [113] Upheaval Canyon [46] Upheaval Dome [43] Uranium [16], [34], [97] mines [16], [29], [50], [100] occurrence [16], [62] Ute petroglyphs [12]
V Vegetation, Chesler Park [76] fossil forest [101] Hatch Point [47] historical changes [5], [90] Island in the Sky [29] Squaw Flat [63]
W Wasatch Formation [116] Water, artesian [91] floods [67] ground [64], [65] Island in the Sky district [43], [91] potholes [36], [65] quicksand [66] springs [36] Whale Rock [46] White Rim [34], [58] [White Rim Sandstone] [23], [47], [54] color [24] elaterite [58] potholes [36] thickness variation [23], [34], [40], [43] water [91] White Rim Trail [34] Windwhistle Campground [47] Wingate Sandstone [46], [54], [61], [115] cliff dwellings [97] petroglyphs [12], [97] resistance to erosion [25] Wooden Shoe [66] Wupatki National Monument [115]
Z Zion National Park [115]
