The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States.

Colorado Plateau, a physiographic province of the Intermontane Plateaus region, extending across the southwestern United States and covering the southeastern half of Utah, extreme western and southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and the northern half of Arizona.

2019年12月1日 · The Colorado Plateau is centered on the four corners area of the Southwest, and includes much of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. Originally named by John Wesley Powell, the Colorado Plateau comprises a series of tablelands (plateaus or mesas) located within an immense basin surrounded by highlands.

2018年4月30日 · This region is one of the world's premier natural showcases for Earth history. Encompassing 240,000 square miles (386,242 km), the Colorado Plateau straddles the region known as The Four Corners, where the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet.

2023年2月7日 · Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau, famous for its dozens of colorful rock layers in places like the Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, and Parashant, occupies western Colorado, most of Utah, northern New Mexico, and northern Arizona. It is made of colorful sedimentary and metamorphosed rocks that have been deposited over 1.7 billion years.

2021年7月6日 · The Colorado Plateau region is characterized by sparsely vegetated plateaus, deeply carved canyons, ancient volcanic mountains, mesas and buttes, valleys, domes, hoodoos, shallow basins, barren badlands, sunken deserts, and …

2022年4月8日 · The Colorado Plateau covers an area of approximately 335,000 square kilometers (130,000 square miles) close to the center of the Southwest. It is the one region located in all four states, whose borders intersect at the …

What is the Colorado Plateau? Encompassing 240,000 square miles (386,242 km) including the transition zones, the Colorado Plateau stretches across four states; Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico as well as many Tribal Nations too.

Between the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Great Basin lies a land of remarkable presence: the province we know as the Colorado Plateau. Encompassing 150,000 square miles of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, the Colorado Plateau is home to one million people…one quarter of them Native American.

The Colorado Plateau encompasses a massive land area featuring a series of plateaus or mesas, which are located within an enormous basin surrounded by mountainous highlands. It’s named for the Colorado River that dissects much of the canyons and other formations of the area.