Cedar Mountain, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Media CD National Parks and Monuments

National Parks and Monuments

America in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities

Yet nothing is quite so sobering as the realization of the time

The Pine Hollow Formation is restricted to the Table Cliff Plateau and the west-side of Johns Valley

the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was hard-pressed to find a suitable rail route from Grand Junction to Salt Lake City

Cedar Mountain, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Media CD National Parks and MonumentsThe distinctive characteristic of a topographic map is that the shape of the Earth's surface is shown by contour lines. Contours are imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a reference surface, such as mean sea level. Contours make it possible to measure the height of mountains, depths of the ocean bottom, and steepness of slopes. A topographic map shows more than contours. The map also includes