Existing comment:
Discovery:
When newly created, Arches was not well known except by a few local people. The Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition of 1933-1934 was the first effort to map the monument. Frank Asahel Beckwith, head of the expedition, named Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, and Tower Arch. In the late 1920s, C.H. Diane, a USGS geologist, mapped the Salt Valley anticline and started unraveling the geologic story of the park. Between 1937 and 1949, four men served as custodian or superintendent of Arches.... Each made new discoveries and increased our knowledge of the park. |