Horseshoe Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Emery County, Utah
Photographer: Sonja Heuscher
Stream erosion during uplift of the Colorado Plateau incised the Green River channel deep into the Triassic–Jurassic-age Wingate Sandstone and underlying Chinle Formation. At Bowknot Bend, the channel turns back on itself in a huge meander loop.
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Kane County, Utah.
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg
Large star dune in Coral Pink Sand Dunes State
Park, Kane County, Utah.
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Kane County, Utah.
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg
Beetle on rippled dune face, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, Kane County, Utah.
Desolation Canyon, Emery County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Rippled sand bar along the Green River in Desolation Canyon, Emery County, Utah
Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County, Utah
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg
Eroded cross-beds in the Navajo Sandstone capture spherical hematite (iron oxide) concretions that have weathered out of overlying strata. The Navajo Sandstone comprises “fossilized” sand dune deposits of Early Jurassic age.
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Iron oxide-stained sandstone at “Yellow Rock,” Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
Iron County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Finely laminated sandstone of the Chinle Formation, Iron County, Utah.
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Dinosaur skin is preserved at many Utah dinosaur sites. Fossilized dinosaur skin impressions, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
High Uintas Wilderness, Summit County, Utah
Photographer: Rich Emerson
On the north slope of the Uinta Mountains, Henrys Fork Lake is a paternoster lake—one of a chain or series of lakes in a glacially eroded valley. Most of the glaciers had retreated by 14,000 years ago, leaving behind moraines, U-shaped valleys, and cirques carved into Precambrian-age Uinta Mountain Group rocks.
Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties, Utah
Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan
Differential weathering creates unusual patterns on the Little Cottonwood quartz monzonite, Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties.
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