Recent geology of Cane Wash, Monument Valley, Arizona
Hunt, Charles Butler. 1955. Recent geology of Cane Wash, Monument Valley, Arizona. Science. 122(3170):583-585
Among the major problems in the Colorado River drainage basin are soil erosion, arroyo cutting, and sediment load of the streams. In order to appraise in quantitiatve terms the effects of these several processes as they are operating today and have operated since about 1880, when most of the present arroyo cutting began, it is necessary to reconstruct the late Pleistocene and Recent history of the region.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Hunt, Charles Butler
- Units
- CHIR
- Keywords
- Arizona, Cane Wash, Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas Mts., Erosion, Geologic History, Geologic Maps, Geology, Historical Geology, Monument Valley, Physiographic geology, Quaternary, Sedimentation, sketch, Surficial deposits