U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1974
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402—Price $2.65 (paper covers)
Stock Number 2401-02498
Contents
Page [A new park is born] 1 [Major Powell’s river expeditions] 4 [Early history] 9 [Prehistoric people] 9 [Late arrivals] 14 [Geographic setting] 17 [Rocks and landforms] 20 [How to see the park] 26 [The high mesas] 27 [Island in the Sky] 27 [Dead Horse Point State Park] 30 [North entrance] 34 [Shafer and White Rim Trails] 34 [Grand View Point] 36 [Green River Overlook] 43 [Upheaval Dome] 43 [Hatch Point] 46 [Needles Overlook] 47 [Canyonlands Overlook] 48 [U-3 Loop] 49 [Anticline Overlook] 50 [Orange Cliffs] 54 [The Benchlands] 58 [The Maze and Land of Standing Rocks] 58 [The Needles district] 60 [Salt, Davis, and Lavender Canyons] 64 [The Needles and The Grabens] 73 [Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers] 85 [Entrenched and cutoff meanders] 86 [Green River] 87 [Colorado River] 96 [Summary of geologic history] 112 [Additional reading] 117 [Acknowledgments] 118 [Selected references] 118 [Index] 123
Illustrations
Page [Frontispiece. Looking north from Devils Lane near Silver Stairs.] [a]Figure] [1. Map of Canyonlands National Park] 6 [2. Pictographs on wall of Horseshoe Canyon] 10 [3. The All American Man] 10 [4. Tower Ruin] 11 [5. Newspaper Rock] 13 [6. Cave Spring Line Camp] 15 [7. Canyonlands National Park and vicinity] 19 [8. Shallow inland sea] 21 [9. Rock column of Canyonlands National Park] 22 [10. Section across Canyonlands National Park] 24 [11. Aerial view of The Neck and Shafer Trail] 28 [12. Merrimac and Monitor Buttes] 29 [13. Cane Creek anticline (viewed from Dead Horse Point)] 30 [14. Cutaway view of anticline] 31 [15. Looking southwest from Dead Horse Point] 32 [16. Shafer Trail] 35 [17. Natural tanks] 37 [18. Canyon Viewpoint Arch] 37 [19. Index map showing photograph localities] 38 [20. The White Rim] 40 [21. Monument Basin from Grand View Point] 41 [22. Monument Basin from the air] 42 [23. Stillwater Canyon and Green River] 44 [24. Turks Head] 45 [25. Upheaval Dome] 45 [26. Cutaway view of syncline] 46 [27. Junction Butte and Grand View Point] 48 [28. Syncline in core of Lockhart Basin] 49 [29. View westward from U-3 loop] 50 [30. Looking north from Anticline Overlook] 51 [31. Cane Creek anticline (viewed from Anticline Overlook)] 52 [32. View southeastward from The Spur] 55 [33. Looking north down Millard Canyon] 56 [34. Elaterite seeping from White Rim Sandstone] 59 [35. White Rim Sandstone] 59 [36. The Doll House] 60 [37. Church Rock] 61 [38. North and south Six-Shooter Peaks] 62 [39. Squaw Flat Campground] 64 [40. Aerial view eastward across Salt Canyon] 65 [41. Wooden Shoe] 66 [42. Paul Bunyans Potty] 67 [43. Angel Arch] 69 [44. Fisheye Arch] 70 [45. Wedding Ring Arch] 71 [46. Hand Holt Arch] 71 [47. Cleft Arch] 72 [48. Arch] 72 [49. The Needles] 73 [50. Chesler Park in The Needles] 73 [51. The Needles and The Grabens] 74 [52. Trail to Druid Arch] 77 [53. Upper Elephant Canyon] 77 [54. Druid Arch] 78 [55. A simple graben] 80 [56. Cutaway view of normal fault] 80 [57. West wall of Cyclone Canyon Graben] 81 [58. Lower Elephant Canyon] 81 [59. The confluence from the air] 82 [60. The confluence from Confluence Overlook] 83 [61. Cataract Canyon] 84 [62. Bowknot Bend] 89 [63. Inscription by Julien] 91 [64. Buttes of the Cross] 92 [65. Anderson Bottom Rincon] 94 [66. Drainage changes at Anderson Bottom Rincon] 94 [67. Stillwater Canyon] 95 [68. The Portal] 97 [69. The Canyon King] 98 [70. Potash mine of Texas Gulf, Inc] 99 [71. Evaporation ponds] 99 [72. Petrified log] 102 [73. Relatively recent rincons along Indian Creek] 103 [74. The Loop] 104 [75. Reverse fault] 105 [76. Cutaway view of reverse fault] 105 [77. Salt Creek Canyon] 107 [78. The Slide] 107 [79. Gypsum plug] 109 [80. Geologic time spiral] 110 [81. Late Cretaceous sea] 114
A New Park is Born
On September 12, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an act of Congress establishing Canyonlands as our thirty-second national park, the first addition to the park system since 1956.