NPS Geodiversity Atlas—Interior Region 7 Index

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Bent’s Old Fort lies in the Arkansas River floodplain in the Colorado Piedmont section of the Great Plains. Geologic units present at or near the surface of the site are limited to the Quaternary. The surrounding landscape consists of flat to gently rolling surfaces with steep intervening slopes with Cretaceous bedrock. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Canyonlands National Park contains some of the most scenic erosional landforms in the American southwest. It consists of a rugged landscape of canyons, mesas, buttes, and rock spire containing a myriad of natural arches, rock alcoves, and other features. Rocks exposed in the park range in age from the late Paleozoic through the Jurassic and include many dominant eolian sandstones.

Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.

Capulin Volcano, which erupted 54,200 years ago within the easternmost young volcanic field in North America, is one of the most scenic and most accessible cinder cones on the continent. Links to products from Baseline Geologic and Soil Resources Inventories provide access to maps and reports.