Part 11

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

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