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By: Eva Mahoney
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Region: Southwest State: Utah Capital: Salt Lake City Longitude: 113.0500°W Latitude: 37.3000°N
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Great White Throne Location is : Southeast - Is a huge mass of stone rising nearly half a mile from the canyon floor. - may reflect purple colors at one minute and pale yellow the next Kolob arch ●287.4 wide ● one of longest spanning natural free stand arches In world Zion canyon ●2 to 3,000 feet wall towers ● main feature of the park 6744 long
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Native Americans (also known as Anasazi) ●American Indians lived in Zion 2,000 Years ago ●ancestral puebloans ●Brigham Young and his Mormon followers were the first European Americans in the area in the 1840’s ●The park was preserved for 81 years ●2010 2,825,505 visited park
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culture Anasazi and the settlers Brigham young believed in respecting the land. They both believed the land should be preserved.
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These are the most important waterways in the park. They are Virgin river and weeping rock.
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Waterways Virgin river -is about 162 miles long -cuts through the sandstone -is formed by confluence of East Fork Weeping rock Spring water seeping out the rock 100 feet over head ●Lakes nearly 1,000 years travel through sandstone above Archangel Cascades ●is formed by confluence of east fork ●is a series of cascades sheeting their way down the hard sandstone bedrock ●left fork of north creek continues to trickle it's way
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●Layers of sandstone, mud and gravel ●Rock forms range in color ●Dark red and range to light purple and pink ●
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