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Kaiparowits Plateau
plateau, Utah, United States
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feature of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument
- In Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument
The arid Kaiparowits Plateau rises above the surrounding land in the centre of the monument and contains prehistoric artifacts, petrified wood, and fossils of the Cretaceous Period (about 65 to 145 million years old). In the northeast, the Escalante River has cut deep into the sandstone over…
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