The Coconino Plateau is found north and northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona, in the United States. It lies south of Grand Canyon Village in Coconino County and mostly north of Interstate 40 and east of Highway 66. The plateau has many hiking trails, including the Beale Road Historic Trail and Bull Basin and Pumpkin Trails. The Coconino Plateau is home to the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness area. A great view of the plateau can be seen from the top of Kendrick Peak, at 10,418 feet above sea level, located northwest of Flagstaff. Flagstaff, Arizona Territory. ... Grand Canyon Village is a census-designated place located right on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona. ... Coconino County is located in the north central part of the state of Arizona. ... INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # I-15 CA 0 I-17 AZ 195 I-25 NM 159 I-27 TX 70 I-44 OK 147 I-35 OK 150-152 I-30 AR 153 I-55 AR 277-279 I-65 TN 207-209 I-24 TN 210-213 I-75... In geology and earth science, a plateau (also tableland, plâteau) is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat open country if the uplift was recent in geologic history. ...
Though the Colorado Plateau is generally floored with horizontal or slightly inclined sedimentary strata, its surface has been roughened in places by folding, faulting, the building of volcanoes, and the intrusion of igneous rocks—geologic activities that have modified the otherwise normal drainage pattern and the orderly development of erosion features.
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 Mogollon Plateau is a southward and a southeastward extension of the CoconinoPlateau.
A spectacular section of the canyon, together with plateau areas on either side of it, are preserved as the Grand Canyon National Park, which receives about four million visitors a year.
The plateau area has a general downward slope to the southwest and in its upper reaches is sparsely covered with such evergreens as juniper and piñon.
The topmost layer is a limestone, the Kaibab limestone.
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