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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Zion National Park"”.
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Excavation and interpretation: 42Ws126, the Watchman Site, Zion National Park, Utah
Excavations at 42Ws126, a Virgin Anasazi site in Zion National Park, Utah, were conducted for three weeks in the summer of 2000 by archaeologists from the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with high school students and teachers from Nevada and southern Utah as part of a public …
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Diet and diseases of Zion Canyon mule deer, Zion National Park, Utah
Many mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in Zion Canyon, Zion National Park appear to be in poor condition. In this study diet composition, nutritional value of the diet, prevalences of diseases and parasites, and herd composition were examined for further evidence of poor condition. Analysis of forage …
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Species Distribution Modeling for Arid Adapted Habitat Specialists in Zion National Park
… ranges in the desert southwest and specifically, Zion National Park (ZION). The machine learning method, MaxEnt, constructed species distribution models (SDMs) in ZION for the two study species at 30 m and 900 m spatial resolutions using climate, topographic, and remotely sensed data. …
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Modeling the stream temperature regime of the East Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park
… Water Rights Branch, Water Resources Division, National Park Service, to evaluate the physical habitat of the aquatic organisms within Zion National Park (ZION). Stream temperature is an aquatic habitat characteristic that is known to be a controlling variable in the successful existence of the …
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Recreational disturbance of a desert stream fish community: Detecting ecological effects of environmental impact
… of 1997 in the North Fork of the Virgin River, Zion National Park, Utah, to assess effects of recreational activities on native fish communities. Pools experiencing high levels of wading and float tubing contained altered population distributions and altered community structure as compared to …
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Soft-sediment Deformation and Dune Collapse in the Navajo Sandstone
<p>The Canyon Overlook Trail of Zion National Park follows an outcrop of Navajo Sandstone, which displays a uniquely well-exposed assemblage of features associated with failure of the lee face of a large eolian dune, and run-out over an expanse of interdune sediments downwind of that bedform. …
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Neotectonic evolution of Grand Canyon : interaction between volcanism, river incision, epeirogenic uplift, and faulting
… Differential oversteepening of rivers in the Zion National Park area can't be explained by climatic or bedrock-hardness differences and are best explained by localized uplift of the area, which explains the area's high relief and dramatic slot canyons. In the third chapter, new geochronology …