Goosenecks of the San Juan Satellite Image

Document Type

Map

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Abstract

As a contribution to the Utah as Art collection created by UtahView, a member of the AmericaView consortium (https://americaview.org/), this image of the Goosenecks of the San Juan River, Utah is intended to act as an educational resource to increase interest in the contributions of remote sensing satellites as an aid to Earth resource management. The Goosenecks are deeply entrenched meanders of the San Juan River located in southeastern Utah. The San Juan River drains a high semi-arid region of the Colorado Plateau and is a major tributary of the Colorado River. During the Neogene Period, the river gradually became entrenched as the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and the headwaters began to rise. The dramatic erosion associated with the rapid downcutting of the river preserved the prehistoric meandering pattern. The San Juan River is now surrounded by canyon walls that are more than 1,000 feet high. This image of the Goosenecks was captured on June 24, 2019, by the Multispectral Imager onboard the European Space Agency Sentinel-2A satellite. The image is integrated with topographic data to emphasize the diversity of the terrain.

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