COLORADO PLATEAD 
UINTA BASIN SECTION B 
Fig. 1.8 The Uinta Basin. This is a deeply dissected stru 
ctural basin with strata dipping slightly to the north. 
Several rivers cross the section, such as the Colorado and 
the Green, and they have broad irrigated valleys where most 
of the settlement of the seotion is located. In the fore 
ground are deep canyons up which minor roads lead to cattle 
ranches. The plateau tops, which are close to 8,000 ft., 
are largely covered by oak brush which succeeded pine forests 
following fires. They are now used largely as summer range 
for cattle. Roan Plateau, west of Rifle, Colo. Hay 1948. 
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