Transcript Virgin River

•State-Utah
• Region-Northwest
• Capital-Salt Lake City
• Longitude-111.5000°W
• Latitude-37.3000°N
Waterways
•Zion National Park is located in
the North west region of Utah.
It is known for it`s arches and
canyons.
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Great White Throne
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is a huge mass of stone rising nearly half a mile from the canyon
floor.
may reflect purple colors at one minute and pale yellow the next
Height 6744 feet
Location - Southeast
Kolob Arch
• One of the longest spanning free stand arches in the world!
• The width is 287.4 ft.
Zion Canyon
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Length- wall towers are 2 to 3,000 ft
50-70 per mile
15miles long to only a few feet wide
Main feature of the park
• Anasazi and the settlers Brigham Young
believed in respecting the land. They both
believed that the land should be
preserved.
Culture
• Native Americans (also known as Anazasi)
•American Indians
lived in Zion 2,000 ago
Ancestreal Puebloans
•Brigham Young and his Mormon Followers
were the first Eurapean americans in the area in the 1840`s
• Zion National Park
was preserved for 81 years
In 2010, 2,825,505 people visited the park
• These are the most important waterways in the park. They are
Virgin River and Weeping Rock, last but not least Archangel
Cascades.
Waterways
Virgin
River
• about 162 miles long
• Cuts through the sandstone of the National Park
• Is formed by conflunce of East Fork Virgin River
Weeping Rock
- spring water seeping out of the rock
100 feet over head are lakes
nearly 1000 years to travel through the sandstone above it
Archangel Cascades
are a series of cascades sheeting their way down the hard sandstone bedrock
Left Fork North Creek continues to trickle it`s way further down stream
the subway is a spectacular semi- technical slot canyon in the Kolob Terrace
section of Zion National Park
Rocks and Minerals
There are many rock types that make up Zion
National Park.
• The rocks that are in Zion NP are sandstone and mud and
bedrock.
• Rock forms range in color from, dark red, and range to
purple and pink
• Layers of sand , mud, and gravel washed down by nearby
mountains