Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County, Utah
Photographer: Lance Weaver
Red- and white-stained Navajo Sandstone in Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County.
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This photo was submitted to us by Mike McCandless of Emery County. The San Rafael Swell is an eroded anticline approximately 600,000 acres in size inside the Colorado Plateau contained entirely in Emery County. The Swell exposes many different types of colorful sedimentary rocks that have been eroded into beautiful valleys, canyons, gorges, mesas and buttes. Great photo Mike!
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Wall Arch, Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Photographers: Grant Willis (top)
and Rich Giraud (bottom)
Now you see it, now you don’t. Formerly located along the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park, Wall Arch collapsed sometime during the night of August 4th, 2008.
Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg
A small window in the Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone frames a view of Utah’s most famous landform, Delicate Arch. The arch is composed of Jurassic-aged sandstone including the Slick Rock Member (base and pedestals) and Moab Member of the Curtis Formation (bridge). In the distance, Oligocene-aged igneous rock forms the snow-covered La Sal Mountains.
San Juan River near Mexican Hat, San Juan County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Rock layers are folded in some areas of the Colorado Plateau, such as these on the flank of the Raplee anticline along the San Juan River near Mexican Hat, San Juan County.
Island in the Sky District, Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah
Photographer: Lance Weaver
Deep canyons display headward erosion at Island in the Sky District, Canyonlands National Park.
Island in the Sky District, Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah
Photographer: Taylor Boden
The La Sal Mountains laccolith (a shallow, mushroom-shaped igneous intrusion) of Oligocene age rises above the red Mesozoic and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks exposed in the Colorado River drainage. Washer Woman Arch, visible in the upper part of the small butte in the middle foreground, is eroded out of the Triassic-Jurassic-aged Wingate Sandstone.
Special thanks to Burke McClure for the submission!
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Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Kane County, Utah
Photographer: Lance Weaver
Wahweap Bay at the south end of Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Lake Mountains, Utah County.
Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan
UGS geologists provide oversight and run downhole geophysical logs during ground-water monitoring-well drilling.
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