The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park

by Stanley William Lohman

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]