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Colorado Plateau

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Noun1.Colorado Plateau - a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner
Arizona, Grand Canyon State, AZ - a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon
Centennial State, Colorado, CO - a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, NM - a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
Beehive State, Mormon State, Utah, UT - a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young
Grand Canyon - the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona


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The Colorado Plateau is the most geographically fascinating place in the country.
NATURAL RESOURCES SOMETHING GRAND - BOOK REVIEW by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
government demand for uranium spurred a boom in uranium milling and mining in the Colorado Plateau and Four Corners region, a large area of land in New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado that encompasses the Navajo and Hopi Nations (Figure 5) (3).
Lung Cancer in a Nonsmoking Underground Uranium Miner by Kornfeld, Mario / Environmental Health Perspectives
According to this view, tectonic forces lifted the Colorado Plateau while sediments carried by the river and its tributaries gradually chewed their way downward to form the gorge.
The Making of a Grand Canyon by PERKINS, SID / Science News
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