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<br />285~) <br />Mesa Verde is a high, greatly and deeply dissected <br />. tableland that at the north side rises about 2,000 feet <br />above a gently southward-sloping plain. The western <br /> <br />edge of Mesa Verde rises 800 to 1,000 feet above the <br /> <br />valley of Navajo Wash. Its surface slopes gently to <br /> <br />the south. It ranges in altitude from 6,000 feet in the <br /> <br />New Mexico part of the reservation through 8,200 feet <br /> <br />at the northcrn reservation boundary to 8,600 at its <br /> <br />northern cdge a few miles north of the boundary. <br /> <br />The Mancos River and its tributaries have deeply <br /> <br />dissected Mesa Verde, leaving many small fingerlike mesas <br /> <br />bordered by steep, narrow canyons. In some places <br /> <br />headward erosion by streams has reached the northern edge <br /> <br />of the mesa. These mesas are capped by resistant sandstone <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ledges ~,at overlie t~ic~ sequences of shale. Numerous <br /> <br />ruins of ancient cliff dwellings ilre in the alcoves of <br /> <br />the sandstone beds. Mesa Verde National Park, where <br /> <br />facilities arc provided for the public to view the many <br /> <br />interesting ruins, is just north of the Ute Reservation <br /> <br />boundary on Mesa Verde. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.2.5' <br />