San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah
Photographer: Stephanie Earls; © 2012
Draw rock art panel, San Rafael Swell, Emery County.
Tag Archive for: Photo of the Day
Another weekend gone by, and a photo to greet you on your Monday morning. Who went somewhere fun this weekend?
Courthouse Rock near Moab, Grand County, Utah
Photographer: Jay Hill; © 2012
What a great photo to start the weekend with!
Bryce Canyon National Park, Garfield County, Utah
Photographer: Lance Weaver; © 2012
Spanish Fork Peak, Utah County, Utah
Photographer: Buck Ehler; © 2012
Spanish Fork Canyon and Spanish Fork Peak, Utah County.
Washington County, Utah
Photographer: Don DeBlieux; © 2012
Sculpted hills of iron-stained Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone form the Red Mountains north of St. George. In the distance, Paleozoic strata of Square Top Mountain and Jackson Peak have been transported up and over younger Mesozoic strata along the Square Top Mountain thrust fault.
What a photo for Monday, Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone!
Waterpocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah
Photographer: Ken Krahulec; © 2012
Bentonite Hills, east of Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen; © 2012
Black volcanic boulders litter colorful but seemingly lifeless badlands formed in the Brushy Basin Member of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. Moisture-sensitive swelling clays, formed by the alteration of volcanic ash, allow little vegetation to take root.
A stunning Utah view.
Antelope Island & Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Davis County, Utah
Photographer: Ken Krahulec; © 2012
Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Photographer: Paul Inkenbrandt; © 2012
Storm clouds clear over Bridger Bay and Antelope Island, the largest island in Great Salt Lake. Much of the island, including Stringham Peak (left background; elevation 6,345 feet), is made up of Precambrian-age rocks that are some of the oldest rocks in Utah (600 million to 2.5 billion years old).
Wasatch Range, Weber County, Utah
Photographer: Ken Krahulec; © 2012
Snow Basin on the east side of the Wasatch Range, Weber County.
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