Water Hollow Ridge, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Trees Plants and Flowers Books Nine Mile Canyon slashes through

Nine Mile Canyon slashes through the West Tavaputs Plateau and erodes its way east to the Green River

it flows southward from American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Range to the north side of Utah Lake

Used to find and plot coordinates

Scale: 1:29

lavished with gorgeous photography

Water Hollow Ridge, Utah - 7.5 Minute Series Topo Map Trees Plants and Flowers Books Nine Mile Canyon slashes throughThe distinctive characteristic of a topographic map is that the shape of the Earth's surface is shown by contour lines. Contours are imaginary lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a reference surface, such as mean sea level. Contours make it possible to measure the height of mountains, depths of the ocean bottom, and steepness of slopes. A topographic map shows more than contours. The map also includes