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 Page Abajo Mountains [101] artifacts [9] Abbey, Edward [3] Aborigines, occupation of area [9] Acknowledgments [105] Anasazi people, petroglyphs [10] Anasazi ruins [9], [103] Ancestral Colorado River [33] Anomalies, gravity, Salt Valley [32] Anticlines, salt [31] Arches, broken remains [44] examples [46] former abutments [68] horizontal [44] how they are formed [42] natural, defined [40] number in the park [40], [41] origin and development [37] pothole [44] vertical [42], [44] Artifacts, La Sal and Abajo Mountains [9] Aspinall, Wayne, Representative [8]

B “Baby Arch” [46], [63], [83] Balanced Rock [69], [70], [74] Banta, Jerry [105] Bar-DX Ranch [12], [13], [14] “Barrier Canyon style” [10] Bedding, wavy, Dewey Bridge Member [46] Beeson, Stib [13] Beginning of a monument [1] Bending of rocks [24] Bennett, Wallace F., Senator [8] Beroni, Pete [14], [15] Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument [102] Book Cliffs [100] Breaking of rocks [24] Bridge, natural, defined [40] Broken Arch [46], [79] Brown-Stanton expedition, exploration [15] Bryce Canyon National Park [103] Budge, Chuck [105]

C Cache Valley [56], [73], [77] Cache Valley anticline [25], [32], [34], [55], [100], [101] Cache Valley graben [34], [100] Campground [86] water supply [87] Cane Creek anticline [24] Canyon de Chelly National Monument [102] Canyon King [8] Canyon Lands Section, Colorado Plateau [9], [22] Canyonlands National Park [3], [9], [15], [102] Canyonlands Natural History Association [8] Capitol Reef National Park [103] Carithers, Joe [105] Carmel Formation [100] Cassidy, Butch [12] Caves, Entrada Sandstone [9] Cedar Breaks National Monument [103] Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member, Cutler Formation [22], [102] Chinle Formation [32], [100], [102], [103] “Cisco Cutoff” [16] Civilian Conservation Corps [2] Cliff dwellers [9] Climate, desert [35], [51] wetter, different landscape produced [37] Collapse, salt anticlines [33], [34] Color photographs, equipment used [8] Colorado National Monument [102] Colorado Plateau, geologic formations included [101] rock formations [103], [104] subdivisions [18] uranium-vanadium mining [14] Colorado Plateaus Province [18] Colorado River, course established [101] nighttime illuminated float trip [16], [52] Colorado River canyon [35], [51], [52] Cores, salt [100] Corral mine [15] Courthouse syncline [25], [30], [31], [32], [52], [63], [68], [100] Courthouse Towers area [25], [63] number of arches [41] Courthouse Wash [2], [3], [18], [35], [63] Cove Arch [70] Cove of Caves [70] Crossbedding, Navajo Sandstone [63], [66], [70] Cutler Formation [32], [102] Cedar Mesa Sandstone Member [22] White Rim Sandstone Member [22]

D Dark Angel [92] De Chelly Sandstone Member, Cutler Formation [102] Dead Horse Point [33] Dedication of the park [8] Delicate Arch [16], [25], [74], [75], [77] Delicate Arch area, number of arches [41] Density, average, Paradox Member [32] Deposition of rock materials, environments [20] Desert varnish [10] Development of the arches [37] Devils Garden [2], [5], [25], [79], [83], [86] fins [42] number of arches [41] trail [88], [92] Dewey Bridge [52] Dewey Bridge Member [46], [63] Entrada Sandstone, composition [41] “hoodoos and goblins” [66] park road cutting [57] The Windows section [71] vertical arches [44] “Dewey Road” [16] Diapir [83] Differential erosion [42] Dinosaur National Monument [101], [102] Dissimilarity of Arches vs. Canyonlands [23], [24] Double Arch [2], [46], [72] Double O Arch [90], [92], [98] Drainage, Arches National Park [18] Dry Mesa [5], [56]

E Eagle Park [25], [98] number of arches [41] Early dwellers [9] Earthquake, rock offset along bedding plane [63] Egyptian queen, arch resembling [63] Eisenhower, Dwight D., Mission 66 [4] Elephant Butte [72] Elephant Butte folds [68] Elizondo, Emmett [13] Entrada Sandstone [23], [74], [102], [103] arches, modes of origin [42] caves [9] cut by normal fault [57] Moab Member [24] no water found [87] Environments of deposition [20] Erosion [99] Colorado Plateau [33] Evaporation basins [99] Evaporites [30] Eye of The Whale [69]

F Facies changes [22] “Father of the monument,” J. W. Williams [1], [4] Faults, Cache Valley anticline [34] Salt Valley anticline [34] Fiery Furnace [25], [42], [73], [79], [83] number of arches [41] Fins [63], [79] Float trip, nighttime illuminated, down Colorado River [52] Folds [24], [30], [100] Four-wheel-drive vehicles [69] Fractures [24] Fremont people, occupation of area [9] pictographs [10] Frost, prying action [42]

G Garden of Eden [50], [69], [70] Gas exploration, deep tests [15], [99] Geographic setting [18] Geologic age of rocks in park [98] Geologic events forming the Colorado Plateau [98] Geologic history, summary [98] Geologic Time Spiral [101], [103] Geology, at the park entrance [57] Glen Canyon Group [52], [102], [103] Glen Canyon National Recreation Area [101], [103] Goblin Valley State Park [66], [103] Gould, Lawrence M. [1] Goulding, Harry, first person to drive into The Windows section [2], [69] Grabens [34] Grand Canyon National Park and National Monument [102] Gravity anomalies, Salt Valley [32] Green River [103] Ground water [41] “Guide to an Auto Tour of Arches National Park,” (The) [5], [50], [51], [72] Gulf of California [33]