Colorado River: Origin and Evolution : Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Grand Canyon National Park in June, 2000Richard A. Young, Earle E. Spamer This collection of papers on the geology of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River is an outgrowth of informal conversations among Colorado Plateau geologists over a period of several years. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Setting the Stage | 7 |
Implications for CretaceousLaramide Inheritance | 17 |
Copyright | |
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ancestral Arizona basalt flow base basin Bidahochi Formation Black Bouse Bouse Formation California carbonate channel clasts Colorado Plateau Colorado River Damon dated debris deposits derived dike drainage early east eastern elevation erosion evidence Fault field Figure Formation formed Grand Wash trough gravel Hopi Buttes Hualapai Limestone Hurricane incision indicate Kaibab Lake Mead Laramide late lava Limestone Little Colorado River locality lower Lucchitta major marine Mesa middle mile Miocene Moenkopi Mogollon Mountain Muddy Creek Formation northern occurred origin Overlies Pleistocene Pliocene Point present probably Range rapid rates region reported Reynolds rocks samples sediment slope southern Spencer Springs strata stream structural suggest surface Table Tertiary thick tributaries tuff UAKA unit uplift upper Valley volcanic volume western Grand Canyon White Young younger zone