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Museums in San Juan County, New Mexico: Chaco Culture National Historical Park


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Chaco Culture National Historical Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chaco Canyon lies within the San Juan Basin, atop the vast Colorado Plateau, surrounded by the Chuska Mountains in the west, the San Juan Mountains to the north, and the San Pedro Mountains in the east. Ancient Chacoans drew upon dense forests of oak, pion, ponderosa pine, and juniper to obtain timber and other resources. The canyon itself, located within lowlands circumscribed by dune fields, ridges, and mountains, runs in a roughly northwest-to-southeast direction and is rimmed by flat massifs known as mesas. Large gaps between the southwestern cliff facesside canyons known as rinconswere critical in funneling rain-bearing storms into the canyon and boosting local precipitation levels. The principal Chacoan complexes, such as Pueblo Bonito, Nuevo Alto, and Kin Kletso, have elevations of 6,200 to 6,440 feet (Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," to Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "," m). Summer thunderstorms over Fajada Butte and the Fajada Gap, near the southwestern rim of Chaco CanyonThe alluvial canyon floor slopes downward to the northeast at a gentle grade of 30 feet (9.1 m) per mile (6 meters per kilometer); it is bisected by the Chaco Wash, an arroyo that rarely bears water. Of the canyon's aquifers, the largest are located at a depth that precluded ancient Chacoans from drawing groundwater: only several smaller, shallower sources supported the small springs that sustained them. Aside from occasional storm runoff coursing through arroyos, significant surface water is virtually non-existent. After the Pangaean supercontinent sundered during the Cretaceous period, the region became part of a shifting transition zone between... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=925271


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156187593
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 32
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156187591
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Chaco Culture National Historical Park
  • Width: 229 mm


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