The layered rocks of the Colorado Plateau—the uplifted floor of an immense, filled impact basin? Island in the Sky at Canyonlands National Park. I recently had occasion to make an extended car trip ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Researchers are working on a mapping project that will chronicle climate change, population growth, oil drilling and other factors in an ...

In low spots on the Colorado Plateau where sediment accumulates in the presence of water, pockets of quicksand may form ...

In March, I had the pleasure of spending a week on the Colorado Plateau with fellow students and professors from the Advanced Natural Resources Law Seminar. The Colorado Plateau – a heart-shaped ...

The Colorado Plateau spans northern Arizona, southern Utah, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. This physiographic province is well known for its striking landscapes and broad ...

The Colorado Plateau had thirteen additional spring visitors this year. More conspicuous in our convoy of rental cars than the migratory geese that loudly pronounce spring’s arrival, at times more ...

The Epic Journey of Geology 310's Crew, Summer 2008 Traipsing in the Blue Ridge. Scuttling about that incredible granite exposure at Richmond’s Belle Isle. A departmental trip to the Potomac River’s ...

Scientists have figured out why the Colorado Plateau -- a 130,000-square-mile region that straddles Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico -- is rising even while parts of its lower crust appear to be ...

PARACHUTE, Colo. — From the ground, the Roan Plateau is a craggy mass of tree-dotted rock that rises half a mile out of the high desert of western Colorado. From the air, however, it is 54,000 acres ...

MY HEART SANK at the sight of my friend Avery's mountain bike, its wheels in the air, the handlebars resting in the hot, sandy soil of Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau. Avery was fine—there'd been no ...