Colorado River Goosenecks (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Colorado River Goosenecks

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Depletion of groundwater will be more disruptive to vegetation, streams and rivers in the eastern US than in the arid Southwest, where deep groundwater already is largely disconnected from surface waters, illustrated here by the Colorado River meandering through red sandstone in northern Arizona.

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Daniel Stolte

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