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Monday, 06 June 2004 Pix Of The Day: Echo Notch On The Kaibito Plateau
CREDIT: © Ian Scott-Parker/CAMwrangler.com WHERE: Page-Flagstaff road, Arizona, USA. WHAT: extreme road engineering. MAP: Kaibito Plateau [PDF format]. Thumbnail click pops-up larger image. ![]() ![]() The road from Page, where the Colorado River crosses the Utah border southwards into Arizona, must step down from the Kaibito Plateau, through the Echo Cliffs to the level of the Painted Desert above the Colorado River and Little Colorado River. These are Navajo Nation and Hopi Nation ancestral lands [large 1.5Mb web page]. Today's picture, taken from the road east of Marble Canyon and the Navajo Bridge, shows the notch used by the highway engineers to navigate that route. The notch has been deepened by blasting, and is now about twice its original size. From there the road then descends steeply to the right, across the face of the cliffs. The color of the rocks changes from milk chocolate brown under the noon sun, to a deeper color in the late afternoon. This caused early Euroamerican explorers to name the escarpment on the opposite bank of the Colorado River the Vermilion Cliffs. Unable to find the correct name, we have called this place the Echo Notch on the Kaibito Plateau. |
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