Crystal Canyon (Utah)

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Crystal Canyon is a canyon on the northeastern edge of Juab County, Utah, United States. [1]

Canyon Deep ravine between cliffs

A canyon or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales. Rivers have a natural tendency to cut through underlying surfaces, eventually wearing away rock layers as sediments are removed downstream. A river bed will gradually reach a baseline elevation, which is the same elevation as the body of water into which the river drains. The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at significantly different elevations, particularly through regions where softer rock layers are intermingled with harder layers more resistant to weathering.

Juab County, Utah U.S. county in Utah

Juab County is a county in western Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,246. Its county seat and largest city is Nephi.

Utah U.S. state in the United States

Utah is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 30th-most-populous, and 11th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.

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Description

The short, fairly steep canyon (spanning only about 1.25 miles or 2.01 kilometres from head to mouth) is located on the northeast base of Sunrise Peak [2] on the western slopes of the East Tintic Mountains. The head of the canyon is on the Juab‑Utah county line at an elevation of 7,400 feet (2,300 m). The canyon runs northwest‑southeast. The mouth is at the head of Diamond Gulch, [3] on the east side of the ghost town of Diamond, [4] at an elevation of 6,398 feet (1,950 m). [1] An unnamed intermittent stream flows the length of the canyon. [5]

East Tintic Mountains

The East Tintic Mountains are a mountain range in central Utah on the east margin of the Great Basin just west of the Wasatch Front about 50 miles (80 km) south-southeast of Salt Lake City. The community of Eureka is an old mining town near the center of the range. U.S. Route 6 Passes through the central part of the range and through Eureka.

Utah County, Utah U.S. county in Utah

Utah County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 516,564, thus making it Utah's second-most populous county. The county seat and largest city is Provo, which is the state's third-largest city.

Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Borders are established through agreements between political or social entities that control those areas; the creation of these agreements is called boundary delimitation.

Crystal Canyon was so named for worthless deposits of crystals which were initially believed to be diamonds. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Crystal Canyon". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ "Sunrise Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  3. ↑ "Diamond Gulch". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  4. ↑ "Diamond". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  5. ↑ "MyTopo Maps - Crystal Canyon, Utah, USA" (Map). mytopo.com. Trimble Navigation, Ltd. Retrieved 21 Feb 2018.
  6. ↑ Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: A Compilation. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 97. ISBN   978-0-87480-345-7. OCLC   797284427.
  7. ↑ Bezzant, Bob. "Diamond". ghosttowns.com. Retrieved 21 Feb 2018.

Coordinates: 39°52′46″N112°05′24″W / 39.8793949°N 112.0899444°W / 39.8793949; -112.0899444

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