![]() | Mesa Verde, Montezuma County, Colorado. |
Gazetteer Query: G.N.I.S. See also: Mesa Verde National Park. See also: Soda Canyon Tip-off Trail.
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Mesa Verde...in southwest Colorado…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.
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Species collected at or near this location: Gentianaceae Frasera albomarginata S. Watson. (Oth)
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M, Date and time this article was prepared:5:43:40 PM, 1/19/2021. |