Grand Wash Cliffs
{{Short description|Landform in Mohave County, Arizona}}
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| location = Mohave County, Arizona, Arizona, United States
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The Grand Wash Cliffs{{GNIS|45602}} extend south-southeast from the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in northwest Arizona west of the Shivwits Plateau south through the Grand Cliffs Wilderness and into the Lake Mead Recreation Area. The Grand Wash Cliffs cross the Grand Canyon where the Colorado River enters Lake Mead. To the south of the Grand Canyon the Grand Wash Cliffs continue past the east side of Grapevine Mesa and then southeast above and east of the Hualapai Valley forming the southwest margin of the Music Mountains.Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, Fourth Ed. 2001 pp. 21 and 29 {{ISBN|0-89933-325-7}}
List of landforms/communities along Grand Wash Cliffs
(form north-to-south)
- Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness (~north terminus) (Loc. dot 1)
- Squaw Canyon
- Pigeon Canyon
- Pearce Canyon
- Pearce Ferry, Lake Mead (at Colorado River)
- Meadview, Arizona (Grapevine Mesa, west, at foothills) (Loc. dot 2)
- Garnet Mountain (Loc. dot 3)
- Music Mountains (part of Hualapai Plateau elevations, east)
- Crozier, Arizona
- Valentine, Arizona (at south terminus) (Loc. dot 4)
- Peacock Mountains
- Cane Springs, Arizona (using Upper Burro Creek Wilderness coord.) (Loc. dot 5)
Image:Sunset_@_Grand_Wash_Cliffs-Meadview_Arizona_-_panoramio.jpg|Sunset at Meadview with Joshua trees
File:The_Grand_Wash_Cliffs_-_panoramio.jpg|Cliffs, and foothills with Joshua Trees
File:Grand Wash Cliffs, from Pierce Ferry Rd (Bahde Gold Claims) January 2007 - panoramio.jpg|Grand Wash Cliffs, from Pierce Ferry Road
See also
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References
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- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:45602,Grand%20Wash%20Cliffs GNIS data for Grand Wash Cliffs]
- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:13088,Upper%20Grand%20Wash%20Cliffs GNIS data for Upper Grand Wash Cliffs]
- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:2035134,Grand%20Wash%20Cliffs%20Wilderness GNIS data for Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness]
External links
- [https://www.topoquest.com/map.php?lat=36.45220&lon=-113.78384&datum=nad83&zoom=4 Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness, AZ at topoquest.com]
- [https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22upper+burro+creek+wilderness%22+coordinates Coordinates for Upper Burro Creek Wilderness, for (Cane Springs, Arizona)]
Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
- [http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?WID=213 Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness at wilderness.net]
Geology/Geography
- [http://repository.azgs.az.gov/sites/default/files/dlio/files/nid1431/peacock_mtn_cm-91-k_200dpi-red.pdf Geologic Map of the Peacock Mountains and Southern Grand Wash Cliffs, map] Citation [http://repository.azgs.az.gov/uri_gin/azgs/dlio/1431]
- [http://www.azwater.gov/AzDWR/StatewidePlanning/WaterAtlas/WesternPlateau/documents/Volume_6_GWA_final.pdf Grand Wash Basin (north Grand Wash Cliffs), maps & description, for water resources, etc.]
- [http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/lame/html/lame_history.htm Geology strata (photo & graphic) of Grand Wash Cliffs, at Geologic History of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, at 3dpark.wr.usgs.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528074444/http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/lame/html/lame_history.htm |date=2010-05-28 }}
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