Vermillion Cliffs--Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
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Soils & Hydrology
"...Fragile cryptobiotic crusts, themselves of significant biological interest, play a critical role throughout the monument, stabilizing the highly erodible desert soils and providing nutrients for plants..." (Proclamation 6920, 1996)
 
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