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1 Nagoya Journal of Space & Earth Sciences AgeologicfieldtripincentralArizona Hiroyuki Hoshi key words Arizona, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, geology, Meteor Crater Barringer Crater, Petrified Forest National Park, Sedona, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting national park national monument national natural landmark 14 Phoenix state highway Holbrook 15 Petrified Forest U.S. highway 191 Canyon de Chelly 16 interstate highway 40 Meteor Crater Flagstaff Sunset Crater Volcano 89A Sedona 17 89A Saguaro Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Aichi , Japan hoshi@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp 18
2 NM = national monument; NP = national park. 2 URL 1 URL1 Chinle URL2; URL Painted Desert Painted Desert $10 19
3 URL12 28 Painted Desert Inn tional historic landmark na Chinle Painted Desert Painted Desert Chinle Ma 4
4 77 3 Painted Desert Inn 5 Chinle Point Painted Desert Bida hochi Nizhoni 7 Blue Mesa Tawa Point 6 8 Agate Bridge Bidahochi state park mesa; butte plateau
5 Route 66 Newspaper Rock The Tepees Chinle Blue Mesa Chinle Blue Mesa Sonsela 220 Ma Blue Mesa badland 7 Agate Bridge m 100 Agate Bridge If discovered today, Agate Bridge would be left in its natural state Agate Bridge Agate Bridge Jasper Forest 9 Jasper Forest Crystal Forest dry wash; 10 Crystal Forest 1.2 km rock shop Harris et al Araucarioxylon monkey puzzle tree Araucaria araucana Norfolk Island pine Araucaria heterophylla; 60 m 3m Rainbow Forest Museum. 2 Chinle Chinle 22
6 Jasper Forest 10 Forest 11 Crystal Forest 12 Crystal Forest 15 cm Chinle Wash Crystal Forest 18 mm 23 Jasper Forest Crystal Tsegi Overlook
7 77 15 White House Overlook White House Ruin 17 Crater Road m 16 White House Ruin White House Overlook Meteor 2015 Holsinger Meteor Crater Road 20
8 URL4; URL5 de Chelly Tsegi 14 De Chelly De Chelly Chronic, 1983 Chinle De Chelly Chinle Shinarump South Rim Drive North Rim Drive 2 12 De Chelly White House Overlook White House Ruin 15, Meteor Crater Road Barringer Crater; Daniel Barringer 1.2 km 170 m Manicouagan Crater 100 km URL m Fe-Ni mph 11.6 km 900 m Masaitis, 2006 Barringer Barringer Crater Company URL6 $
9 Coconino 21 Toroweap Moenkopi Kaibab Moenkopi 23 6 Ma Tanaka et al., Ma 16 Ma 26 5 Ma
10 Priest et al., Bonito levee Oak Creek km2 Tanaka et al., 1986; Priest et al., 2001 San Francisco volcanic field; URL7 27 lava
11 Supai Coconino Tanaka et al., ; URL8; URL9 300 m 2450 m 2100 km 2 URL Wupatki Loop Road. 89A Kaibab Coconino Supai Chronic, 1983 Coconino Supai red rock Slide Rock 27; URL10 Oak Creek Supai vortex URL Jerome Prescott 28
12 Chronic, H., 1983, Roadside Geology of Arizona. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula. Harris, A.G., Tuttle, E., and Tuttle, S.D., 1997, Geology of National Parks, Fifth Edition. Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque. Masaitis, V.L., 2006, Review of the Barringer crater studies and views on the crater s origin. Solar System Research, 40, Priest, S.S., Duffield, W.A., Malis-Clark, K., Hendley, J.W. II, and Stauffer, P.H., 2001, The Sun Francisco volcanic field, Arizona. USGS Fact Sheet , U.S. Geological Survey. Tanaka, K.L., Shoemaker, E.M., Ulrich, G.E., and Wolfe, E.W., 1986, Migration of volcanism in the San Francisco volcanic field, Arizona. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 97, URL1: URL2: URL3: Forest National Park URL4: URL5: de Chelly National Monument URL6: Crater URL7: Francisco volcanic field URL8: URL9: Crater URL10: Rock State Park URL11: Arizona URL12: maps.htm 29
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