Checkerboard Mesa is an iconic 6,520+ ft (1,990+ m) elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Kane County of southwest Utah, United States.[3] Checkerboard Mesa is situated immediately southwest of the park's east entrance, towering 900 feet (270 meters) above the Zion – Mount Carmel Highway. Its nearest neighbor is Crazy Quilt Mesa, one-half mile immediately west, and separated by Checkerboard Mesa Canyon. This canyon holds pools of rainwater which provide a vital source of water for resident bighorn sheep.[4] This peak was originally named Checkerboard Mountain by the park's third superintendent, Preston P. Patraw.[5] The landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1935 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[3] The descriptive name stems from the cliff's distinctive multitudinous check lines in cross-bedded white sandstone which give the impression of a checkerboard. The horizontal lines are caused by cross-bedding, a remnant of ancient sand dunes. The vertical and sub-vertical lines formed by the contraction and expansion of the sandstone caused by temperature changes, freezing and thawing cycles, in combination with wetting and drying. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into tributaries of the Virgin River.
CheckerboardMesa is an iconic 6,520+ ft (1,990+ m) elevation Navajo Sandstone summit located in Zion National Park, in Kane County of southwest Utah...
Highway. Its nearest neighbor is CheckerboardMesa, one-half mile immediately east, and separated by CheckerboardMesa Canyon. This canyon holds pools...
Carmel Junction. Park features on the east side of the park include CheckerboardMesa and The East Temple. The Kolob Terrace area, northwest of Zion Canyon...
Aires Butte Altar of Sacrifice Angel's Landing Ant Hill Bee Hive CheckerboardMesa Court of the Patriarchs The East Temple The Great White Throne Kolob...
named plateaus and mesas of Utah. W West Tavaputs Plateau B Beckwith Plateau E East Tavaputs Plateau C CheckerboardMesa Crazy Quilt Mesa K Kaiparowits Plateau...
Jurassic wind directions changed often. The crosshatched appearance of CheckerboardMesa is a good example (photo). Springs, such as Weeping Rock (photo),...
5 mi (2.4 km) north of Nippletop, and 1.9 mi (3.1 km) northwest of CheckerboardMesa. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains into tributaries of...
this patchwork of reservation and non-reservation land is called the "checkerboard area". It resulted in the loss of much Navajo land. In the southeastern...
Overlook Trailhead, the East Rim Trailhead and the unique Zion landmark, CheckerboardMesa. Finally the road exits the park through the east entrance and 12...
adopted by the company for their official models. Most notably, the checkerboard pattern, popular in ska and punk culture, was adopted after the company...
This is a list of communities on the Navajo Nation, including the checkerboard, arranged alphabetically. Alamo, New Mexico Aneth, Utah Baca, New Mexico...
refused to go further and settled in this part of New Mexico known as the checkerboard, where both Pueblo and Navajo people share the land and live to this...
Oppenheimer was establishing the Los Alamos Laboratory, a secret laboratory on a mesa in New Mexico where atomic bombs would be designed and built. An offer was...
Cultural Museum Cahuilla mythology Cahuilla traditional narratives Golden Checkerboard Muut O. M. Wozencraft negotiated the Treaty of Temecula on January 5...
Beautiful Valley, AZ Bis’ii Ah Wash, AZ Carrizo Mountains, AZ Ceniza Mesa, AZ Checkerboard Reservation, NM Chinle, AZ Chinle Wash, AZ Chuska Mountains, NM...
1947–1972 (2001), Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down (2007) and Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 (2012), etc. Chris Wood's only album Vulcan was...
Redondo, New Mexico Chaco Mesa, New Mexico Checkerboard Reservation, New Mexico Chico Arroyo, New Mexico Chinle, Arizona Chivato Mesa, New Mexico Chuska Mountains...
Canyon Del Muerto, Arizona Carrizo Mountains, Arizona Casa Del Eco Mesa, Utah Checkerboard Reservation, New Mexico Chinle, Arizona Chuska Mountains in New...
(such as Jet and Reverberocket) and featured the bluish-colored diamond-checkerboard covering associated with Ampeg amps of the 1960s. The circuit designs...
portal Melissa Cody (born 1983) is a Navajo textile artist from No Water Mesa, Arizona, United States. Her Germantown Revival style weavings are known...
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