12 Facts About Colorado Plateau

Colorado Plateau, known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

Colorado Plateau is largely made up of high desert, with scattered areas of forests.

Much of the Colorado Plateau's landscape is related, in both appearance and geologic history, to the Grand Canyon.

Colorado Plateau has the greatest concentration of U S National Park Service units in the country outside the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Precambrian and Paleozoic history of the Colorado Plateau is best revealed near its southern end where the Grand Canyon has exposed rocks with ages that span almost 2 billion years.

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Thrust faults in Colorado Plateau are thought to have formed from a slight clockwise movement of the region, which acted as a rigid crustal block.

The Colorado Plateau Province was uplifted largely as a single block, possibly due to its relative thickness.

Yet for some reason not fully understood, the neighboring Colorado Plateau was able to preserve its structural integrity and remained a single tectonic block.

The most well-known of these streams, the Colorado Plateau River, began to carve the Grand Canyon less than 6 million years ago.

Colorado Plateau is covered with dry grasslands and shrublands, open pinyon-juniper woodland, and mountain woodlands and forests.

The rocks of the Colorado Plateau are a source of oil and a major source of natural gas.

The Colorado Plateau holds major uranium deposits, and there was a uranium boom in the 1950s.