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Kaibab Plateau

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Oct 1, 2026

AnthonyHOST
23:21
I also know what I saw.
AnthonyHOST
23:23
There's a part of the Kaibab Plateau where the limestone drops straight down into the drainage below.
AnthonyHOST
23:28
I don't know what was living on those walls.
AnthonyHOST
23:30
I don't know how it could move the way it did, and I don't know if we actually killed it when that rock came down.

Unknown podcast

Canyons of the Colorado-John Wesley Powell

Sep 29 · 9 Mentions

Brian NessNARRATOR
87:03
This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
87:11
The block between the two faults is the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
87:15
Going westward from 60 to 70 miles, still another fault is found, known as the Hurricane Ledge Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
87:21
The throw is again on the west side of the fracture and the rocks fall down some thousands of feet.
Brian NessNARRATOR
89:05
Crossing the Kanab, we are on the East Kanab Plateau, which extends about 30 miles to the foot of the West Kaibab Cliffs, or the escarpment of the West Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
89:16
This canyon also has the Grand Canyon on the south and the Vermilion Cliffs on the north.
Brian NessNARRATOR
89:21
Climbing the West Kaibab Fault, we are on the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
89:25
Now we have been climbing from west to east, and each ascent has been made at a line of cliffs.

Unknown podcast

Canyons of the Colorado-John Wesley Powell

Sep 28 · 8 Mentions

Brian NessNARRATOR
88:34
This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:42
The block between the two faults is the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:45
Going westward from 60 to 70 miles, still another fault is found, known as the Hurricane Ledge Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:52
The throw is again on the west side of the fracture, and the rocks fall down some thousands of feet.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:35
Crossing the Kanab, we are on the East Kanab Plateau, which extends about 30 miles to the foot of the West Kaibab Cliffs, or the escarpment of the West Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:46
This canyon also has the Grand Canyon on the south and the Vermilion Cliffs on the north.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:52
Climbing the West Kaibab Fault, we are on the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:56
Now we have been climbing from west to east, and each ascent has been made at a line of cliffs.
speaker_2NARRATOR
107:38
The isthmus of Panama was beginning to close, a geological event that would alter ocean circulation patterns, trigger the onset of northern hemisphere glaciation and reshape the climate of the entire planet.
speaker_2NARRATOR
107:54
And the Colorado River, already ancient by human standards, was beginning to cut into the Kaibab Plateau, exploiting a zone of weakness in the limestone, deepening its channel grain by grain.
speaker_2NARRATOR
108:09
year by year, carrying its sediment downstream to build a delta that would eventually become the agricultural heartland of the Imperial Valley.
speaker_2NARRATOR
108:21
The river does not hurry, it does not need to, It does not operate on fiscal years or election cycles, or the human lifespan, or even the rise and fall of civilizations.
Orlando JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
60:16
It's west of the golf course.
Orlando JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
60:18
Runs into the foothills, continues down to the Kaibab Plateau, and goes right into Lake Powell.
Orlando JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
60:25
Our cave? Smack dab in the middle of the system.
Orlando JonesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
60:31
It's all connected.

Unknown podcast

Canyons of the Colorado-John Wesley Powell

Sep 25 · 10 Mentions

speaker_3UNKNOWN
87:33
This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
87:41
The block between the two faults is the Kaibab Plateau.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
87:45
Going westward from sixty to seventy miles, still another fault is found, known as the Hurricane Ledge Fault.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
87:52
The throw is again on the west side of the fracture, and the rocks fall down some thousands of feet.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
88:23
Now let us see what all this means.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
88:25
In order clearly to understand this explanation, the reader is referred to the illustration designated section and bird's-eye view of the plateaus north of the Grand Canyon.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
88:35
Starting at the Grand Wash on the west, the Grand Wash Cliffs, formed by the Grand Wash Fault, are scaled, and if we are but a few miles north of the Grand Canyon, we are on the Kaibab Plateau.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
88:46
Its western boundary is the Grand Wash Cliffs, its southern boundary is the Grand Canyon, and its northern boundary is a line of cliffs of degradation, which will be described hereafter.
SammyHOST
7:29
But to a tassel-eared squirrel in a forest oasis surrounded by canyon and desert, those barriers might as well be an ocean.
SammyHOST
7:36
At some point in their evolutionary history, some intrepid squirrels ended up on the Kaibab Plateau, a cool, isolated, high-elevation forest just north of the Grand Canyon, surrounded by desert.
SammyHOST
7:48
And they've remained there, far away from their cousins who stayed put on the canyon's south rim.
SammyHOST
7:53
With time and distance, the Kaibab squirrels have lost touch with their southern kin, the Abert squirrel.
Melissa SivanyNARRATOR
1:09
So far, the disease hasn't infected Arizona's elk and deer herds, blocked by natural barriers such as mountains and rivers.
Melissa SivanyNARRATOR
1:17
The highest risk of spread is along the Kaibab Plateau and Arizona's eastern and southern borders.
Melissa SivanyNARRATOR
1:23
As well as breeding harvested heads to any Arizona Game and Fish office, hunters are asked to report animals showing potential disease symptoms.
Melissa SivanyNARRATOR
1:32
It's also vital to follow carcass disposal regulations and not to import any unprocessed elk or deer meat from out of state.

Unknown podcast

Canyons of the Colorado-John Wesley Powell

Sep 16 · 8 Mentions

Brian NessNARRATOR
88:47
This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:55
The block between the two faults is the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:59
Going westward from 60 to 70 miles, still another fault is found, known as the Hurricane Ledge Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
89:06
The throw is again on the west side of the fracture, and the rocks fall down some thousands of feet.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:49
Crossing the Kanab, we are on the East Kanab Plateau, which extends about 30 miles to the foot of the West Kaibab Cliffs, or the escarpment of the West Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
91:00
This canyon also has the Grand Canyon on the south and the Vermilion Cliffs on the north.
Brian NessNARRATOR
91:05
Climbing the West Kaibab Fault, we are on the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
91:09
Now we have been climbing from west to east, and each ascent has been made at a line of cliffs.

Unknown podcast

Canyons of the Colorado-John Wesley Powell

Sep 8 · 8 Mentions

Brian NessNARRATOR
88:33
This fault gradually becomes less to the northward and is flexed toward the east until it joins with the East Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:41
The block between the two faults is the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:45
Going westward from 60 to 70 miles, still another fault is found, known as the Hurricane Ledge Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
88:52
The throw is again on the west side of the fracture and the rocks fall down some thousands of feet.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:35
Crossing the Kanab, we are on the East Kanab Plateau, which extends about 30 miles to the foot of the West Kaibab Cliffs, or the escarpment of the West Kaibab Fault.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:46
This canyon also has the Grand Canyon on the south and the Vermilion Cliffs on the north.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:51
Climbing the West Kaibab Fault, we are on the Kaibab Plateau.
Brian NessNARRATOR
90:55
Now we have been climbing from west to east, and each ascent has been made at a line of cliffs.

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