The plateau includes Boulder Mountain which peaks at 11328 feet at Bluebell Knoll and has over 50,000 acres of rolling hilly terrain above 11,000 feet.
Thus the eastward tilted Shivwits, Uinkaret, and Kanab Plateaus are outlined by faults, and the Kaibab Plateau is a sequence of bowed strata bordered by monoclines.
The Paunsaugunt fault separates the Aquarius from the Paunsaugunt Plateau; the Sevier fault, the Paunsaugunt from the Markagunt; and the Hurricane fault, the Markagunt from the plateau-like Pine Valley Mountains.
—The Mogollon Plateau is a southward and a southeastward extension of the Coconino Plateau.
One of the high plateaus of central and southern Utah, the AquariusPlateau rises 6000 feet above the colorful canyon country of Capitol Reef National Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to a high point of 11,328 feet atop Bluebell Knoll.
The highlands of the AquariusPlateau are managed by the United States Forest Service as a part of the Dixie National Forest.
Paleobotany and Paleoclimate of the Southern Colorado Plateau.
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