Chapter 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