Eastern Mojave Vegetation Mesa Verde, Montezuma County, Colorado.
 
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Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Mesa Verde National Park.

See also: Soda Canyon Tip-off Trail.

Mesa Verde...in SW Colordo...it is the NW edge of a great coal-bearing sandstone formation which dips beneath the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. It rises to 8000 ft...the escarpment on the N is 2000 ft high, overlooking the lower plateau, arid and desolate except for several irrigated valleys. The Mancos River skirts it on the south.


Elevation: 6765ft, 2062m.

Articles that refer to this location:

  • Two occurrences of Desert Elkweed Swertia albomarginata (S. Watson) Kuntze Gentianaceae in the Mid Hills, Eastern Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California: in Colorado
  • US Highway 160: Mesa Verde National Park
   

Literature Referring To This Location:

  • Post, Douglas M. 1956. Studies in the Gentianaceae: Frasera and Swertia of North America. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley. 1956..

Interesting Collections made at or near this location:

  Swertia albomarginata

    Alice Eastwood
    Alice Eastwood 40770
    Alice Eastwood
    T. S. Brandegee 1249

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Date and time this article was prepared:12:39:48 PM, 5/15/2008