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The Mesa & the Butte

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BUTTE
A butte forms when a harder cap of rock protects a column of softer stone beneath it, once part of a much wider mesa, slowly isolated by erosion over millions of years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ARROYO
The word arroyo comes from Spanish and describes a dry streambed that can fill with a roaring flash flood in minutes after a desert thunderstorm miles away.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TALUS
The rubble of broken rock that collects at the base of a cliff is called talus, each chunk a fragment that frost, gravity, and time pried loose from the canyon wall above.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BADLANDS
The Badlands of South Dakota were called mauvaises terres à traverser, 'bad lands to travel across', by French-Canadian fur traders navigating their stark, eroded terrain.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Mesa & the Butte

The western landscape speaks in stone. Centuries of wind and water carved the Colorado Plateau into a gallery of flat-topped mesas, solitary buttes, and cathedral spires, each layer of sandstone a different shade of ochre, rust, or cream. A lone ridge catches the last of the sunset, an arroyo runs silver after rain, and the silence between the canyon walls is its own kind of grandeur.

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