Arizona transition zone
The Arizona transition zone is a diagonal northwest-by-southeast region across central
Northwest
In the Arizona ecoregion section, the Arizona transition zone is the major section of the EPA designated, Level III ecoregion, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ecoregion. The other two outlier subregions to the transition zone in Arizona, are the Kaibab Plateau of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and associated ranges of the Chuska Mountains region of the northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico.
Geography
The transition zone is dominated by the Mogollon Plateau at the southern edge of the Coconino Plateau of the Flagstaff region and the San Francisco volcanic field; the Mogollon Rim borders the plateau which extends from Oak Creek Canyon on the west, to the east at the highest elevations of Arizona in the central and western White Mountains.[1]
List of mountain ranges of the Arizona transition zone
The Arizona transition zone map is similar to the yellow transition region shown above.[2]
Central mountain ranges
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Western region ranges
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Eastern region ranges
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See also
References
- doi:10.1029/90jb01781. Archived from the originalon 2012-09-27. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
- ISBN 0-89886-730-4