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Little Colorado River

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Little Colorado River
A river of northeast Arizona flowing about 507 km (315 mi) northwest to the Colorado River just above the Grand Canyon.


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Seven times a year, Coggins and his colleagues deploy 30 fishnets for 3-day intervals at three sites on the Colorado just downstream of its confluence with the Little Colorado River.
Straight flush: researchers' latest effort to shape the Grand Canyon by Perkins, Sid / Science News
Existing sediments in the canyon, supplemented only by the Paria and Little Colorado rivers, are slowly eroded farther downstream into Lake Mead as a result of the relatively constant flows that Glen Canyon Dam power operations allow into the Colorado.
GRAND CANYON FLOOD CALLED SUCCESS : MOVE AIMED TO CORRECT IMPACTS OF ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Photo: Mature tributaries that trend northwest, such as Cataract Creek and the Little Colorado River, are evidence that the ancestral Colorado ran to the northwest before the time of the canyon.
What's new in the Ol' Grand? Geology's great monument continues to ... by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
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