Colorado Plateau
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The city sits on the Mogollon Rim, at the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, which drops off as rapidly as it rises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
She explains the complicated geologic history of the canyon, with the uplift of the Colorado Plateau paving the way for the Colorado River to carve into the rock.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
Southwest—grew maize, beans, and squash in small, mobile, kin-based groups across the Colorado Plateau.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 28, 2021
Scott Winans, co-owner of Rapid Creek Cycles and board president of the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association, had the original notion for the Plunge and led its design, approval and funding processes.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
A branch of that road ran through the Sonoran Desert and up onto the Colorado Plateau.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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