Utah Highway 262

Eastern Mojave Vegetation	Utah Highway 262
	Tom Schweich

	East and then south to Montezuma Creek.
Other articles: • US Highway 191: at UT Hwy 262;	Junction: US Highway 191
Other articles: • Frasera albomarginata: near 4 Corners; Locations: McCracken Mesa.	McCracken Mesa Estimating from the written location, there is a collection Frasera albomarginata from near this location.
Other articles: • Hovenweep Road: at Utah 262 South;	Junction: County Route 2416, to Hovenweep.
Literature Cited: - Retallack, Gregory J., 2009.	Near where the highway descends off McCracken Mesa toward Montezuma Creek is a paleosol collection site in the Jurassic Morrison Formation used by Retallack in his 2009 study of greenhouse crises of the past 300 million years. Retallack used stomatal index data for fossil Ginko and related leaves as a proxy for past CO₂ spikes and paleosol chemical data as proxies for temperature and humidity changes. These data show that global warming due to CO₂ rise is a not a unique event in earth history and that the magnitude of the coming anthropogenic greenhouse pales in comparison with past greenhouse spikes at times of global mass extinctions.
	Junction: Utah Highway 162 "Trading Post Road", west to Bluff.
	Junction: Utah Highway 162 "E. Main St.", east to Aneth and Colorado.
	Montezuma Creek
	Junction: Red Mesa Rd
	Utah above … Colorado below … This is Colorado Highway 41, from US Highway 160 northwest to the Utah State Line.
Other articles: • US Highway 160: at CO Hwy 41;	Junction: US Highway 160
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McCracken Mesa

Montezuma Creek