colorado plateau in English

noun
1
a region of arid uplands in the southwestern US; along the Colorado River in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona; noted for its scenery.

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1. The Anasazi Region The heart of the Anasazi region lay across the southern Colorado Plateau and the upper Rio Grande drainage

2. Known as East Antarctica, this section has an average altitude of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), higher than the American Colorado Plateau

3. Known as East Antarctica, this section has an average altitude of about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), higher than the American Colorado Plateau.

4. Flagstaff lies near the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, along the western side of the largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest in the continental United States.

5. The desert floors of southeastern Utah, in particular many of the protected lands of the National Parks located on the Colorado Plateau, have a layer of Cryptobiotic crust

6. At 7,150 feet in elevation, The Arboretum at Flagstaff is a unique destination with a unique mission, specializing in plants native to the Colorado Plateau and northern Arizona

7. Cryptobiotic crust is best known (and probably most studied) from the protected lands of the national parks of the Colorado Plateau, where it forms dark lumpy patches on the red soil

8. Bluff is located at 37°17′1″N 109°33′10″W / 37.28361°N 109.55278°W / 37.28361; -109.55278 (37.283696, -109.552871), in the scenic and very sparsely populated southeastern Utah canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau.

9. Northern Arizona features forests of pine, Douglas fir, and spruce trees; the Colorado Plateau; some mountain ranges (such as the San Francisco Mountains); as well as large, deep canyons, with much more moderate summer temperatures and significant winter snowfalls.

10. A canyon may be defined as a deep gap between steep or sheer sided rock walls, formed by flowing water, and ranges greatly in size - from the mile deep, 277 mile long Grand Canyon to the sinuous slot Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, which may be just a few inches across but dozens or hundreds of feet deep.