| Today the local economy depends mostly on tourists who come to admire and frolic in the park's mesas, canyons, rivers, and waterfalls. |
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| Thirteen vernal pools, ranging in size from a quarter acre to nearly twenty-five acres, develop mostly on the tops of mesas. |
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| Huge red mesas towered on the horizon and a flat unforgiving landscape rolled out before them. |
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| The trail sliced up through an erosional landscape of mesas and deep gorges where the bird life was stunning. |
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| The trail was flat under the hot sun, and the arroyos and mesas were becoming familiar. |
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| The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest. |
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| Our Southwest Grand Tour leads from Las Vegas into the canyons and mesas that form the heart of the Colorado Plateau. |
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| The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance. |
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| At its southern end, the terrain drops down to the Santa Rosa Plateau, a 2,000-foot-high tableland with canyons, mesas, and low hills. |
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| It consists of flat rocky plains, rocky mesas in the south, and sandy dunes in the north. |
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| Red sandstone mesas stretched on either side of Interstate 15, reaching upwards of a couple hundred feet. |
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| We'll benefit from vehicle-supported camping with side hikes to canyons and mesas. |
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| In kanyu, these energy outbursts are called regulators, and the most powerful of them take the form of mesas, buttes, and large rock pillars. |
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| It is characterized by large sand seas, eroded mountain ranges, and upland mesas. |
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| The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue. |
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| On the way you will start to see the mesas and buttes for which the area is so well known. |
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| Visitors love to see the buttes, mesas and other sandstone formations that are so prevalent in the Monument Valley area. |
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| Within 250 billionths of a second, the terrain of the silicon can be sculpted into trenches, mesas and ridges. |
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| Although they are labeled mesas and plateaus, their ruggedness and inaccessibility have been exaggerated. |
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| The headward erosion of streams into the plateau surface eventually isolates sections of the plateau into mesas, buttes, monuments, and spires. |
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| But if you want mesas and forests and gulches and rivers in a video game, you have to build them by hand, from digital scratch if you will. |
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| The road from Monument Valley to Moab passes alongside several of the mesas and buttes for which the region is so well known. |
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| Straddled between Utah and Arizona in the Navaho Indian Reservation are the sandstone buttes, mesas and cliffs of Monument Valley, the setting for countless westerns. |
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| From Moab, they will drive to Monument Valley, famous for the towering red buttes and mesas, which have formed the background for countless westerns. |
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| Blue mesas poke above the distant horizon line, and a domed courthouse grows larger as you near Marfa. |
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| It will be very interesting to determine how these rocks accumulated and why they remain millions of years after these mesas were formed. |
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| The red rock mesas and the deep purple canyons of the American Southwest. |
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| At the time of historic contact the Puebloan peoples were restricted to the Rio Grande Valley and adjacent localities and to scattered settlements in west central New Mexico and on the Hopi mesas of Arizona. |
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| With strip mining, mountaintops became mesas. |
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| Canyonlands National Park, desert wilderness of water-eroded sandstone spires, canyons, and mesas, with Archaic Native American petroglyphs, in southeastern Utah, U. S., just southwest of Moab and Arches National Park. |
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| The Herculean sides of the desert mesas seem to join Heaven and Earth together, creating an extraordinary cosmogony where Man, insignificant and nostalgic, wanders in search of his paradise lost. |
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| These paintings are mostly confined to the sierras of this region, but can also be found in outlying mesas and rock shelters. |
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| Tijuana is noted for its rough terrain, which includes many canyons, steep hills, and mesas. |
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| They live in a harsh landscape of eroded mesas just east of the raw lava flows and cinder cones of El Malpais National Monument. |
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| Four days later, named our daughter also, fine rain, child of the desert mesas, yucca, and chamisal. |
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| We tested and verified the CNE's computer programme to draw a new random sample of 150 mesas, comprising 334 voting machines, and observed the drawing of the sample. |
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| To see the Grand Canyon is to see nature at its most dramatic-a great chasm of majestic spires, buttes, gorges, mesas, and mesmerizing rock formations that look like ancient temples in a windswept city. |
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| The trip will then take you to beautiful St. George, Utah, for an overnight stay, with its beautiful red mountain mesas, lush green golf courses, and warm weather. |
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| Most of the territory has only small mesas and other areas of flat land. |
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| Vegetation of canyons descending from mesas included mound saltbush, galleta grass, blue grama, alkali sacaton, bigelow sage, winterfat, Mormon tea, and one-seed juniper. |
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