Landforms of the Southern Plains - Fine Art Print Map
The western boundary of the Southern Plains is marked by the easternmost
outlying ranges of the Southern Rockies, drained by the upper Canadian
and the Pecos. A broad belt of smooth and geologically young sedimentary
beds, these high plains are bordered on the east by the abrupt Caprock
Escarpment (and other less dramatic breaks), revealing progressively
older rock sequences that finally end in the varied Ozark, Ouchita and
other smaller highlands, or in the broad coastal plain.
The Region is
characterized by the largely concentric sweeping arcs of very long
rivers tending east and south, flowing from the Rockies in the north,
and from the high plains in the south. There are no significant natural
lakes in the Southern Plains, but reservoirs have transformed its river
landscape.
This map covers all of the Rio Grande Basin, from the Rockies in
Southern Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, and including most of the Rio
Grande’s basin in northern Mexico. Nearly all of the Arkansas River is
included on the north, and the Ozark Plateau and Ouachita Mountains on
the east.
The map includes all of Texas and Oklahoma, most of New Mexico, a lot of
Colorado, Kansas, and Arkansas as well as northern Mexico.
Dimensions: All map dimensions
are approximate.
