VULCANISM and Colorado plateau Cp

Colorado plateau Cp is a rising elliptical feature which has volcanoes on 3 sides: Jemez-Valles in New Mexico; White mountains in Arizona, and Yellowstone in Wyoming. Mogollon rim is on the SW side , and the Hurricane fault Hf on the west- surrounded by an elliptical array of knolls- such as Ivin and Sullivan. Why is the NW corner, just north of the Wasatch, not eruptive? We’ll explore that, and find the reason for the N-South uplift, and the E-West anomaly of the Uintas- focus of the California orb. 
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We’ll explore the Polygons in lieu of “broken plates” that the Geo culture which is addicted, who are “in their Cups” who can’t seem to get a handle on it! View the hexagon of half meter sandstone, from the Jurassic Navajo Jn at the edge of Cp:

Jn has explanation for “broken plates”, which is seen by the roadside at Hurricane,Utah. They slide laterally, finally breaking the next layer (stratum) which’s weaker. Asserted plates are at the weakest Crust thickness, and behave as Polygons- shown next:

Jn is shown at Hiway 9, Hurricane City, where a break in the Stratum occurs:

Next there’s the lead on to the Cp, in Oregon to Wyoming’s Yellowstone volcanodiscovery.com

Slickensides are host rock’s coating of hard silica, even when the Host is CaCO3- limestone. They’re almost vertical and are slick-sided! They occur when there’s lateral rotation. Striations reveal the direction of rotation- generally CCW- Counterclockwise:
Figure “8” occurs at side-by-side hills, and are given no importance by the Geo culture; but the slash through the center relates that Shear allows one side to be higher. One has fallen off the hill, and left its shape unimpaired. Look for large figure 3(8 half) at Archipelagoes- such as the Aleutians and Nusantara (Indonesia):


Sunspot cycles of 11 years interact with magnetic pulses to create Heat- eruptions on Earth- which are at right angles- Orthogonal to our Moon’s average orbit of 29+ days around the earth. 
Sullivan knoll is one of 3 volcanic craters within the Hurricane city limits; they are part of an Elliptical display of eight around Hf on both sides. All occurred since 1 million years Ivin knoll- when the fault was absent; this ages for Hf rising, and all others are less than a third of 1 m.y. Cp is much older, and I calculate that it is 40 million, as found at the East side at Llano Quemado, New Mexico burnt plain. 


Note 2 Dynamics at Zion BP- where the Regional Northwest fractures are cut by a local Arc ), and indicate that the Uplift is crossed by one of Milankovitch’s cycles of 25,772, 41,000, or 100,000 years Obliquity while Zion rises- since 22 m.y. Pine Valley mountain ridge monzonite rose. Calculated 2 million Zion uplift is older than Hf, but younger than Cp. 
NW corner has no vulcanism, but has anomalous hot springs with contents that are Temperature seisitive: 
Mystery below is that the various dynamics are difficult to read:

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