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Sandstone cliffs and spires, SE Utah

Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Canyonlands National Park, Utah. (090320-8)
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Differential erosion: sandstone overlying shale, SE Utah. (090318-67)
Download ImageCanyon, SE Utah.

Narrow canyon eroded into flat-lying sandstone of the Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Canyonlands National Park, Utah. (090318-32)
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Offset sandstone blocks on normal faults, just outside gate to Arches National Park, Utah (090317-8)
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Differential weathering and erosion: sandstone overlying shale, SE Utah. (090318-12)
Download ImagePetroglyphs on sandstone.

Petroglyphs on sandstone coated with desert varnish. Newspaper Rock, SE Utah. (090317-29)
Download ImageSandstone arch, spire, and window, Utah

Sandstone arch, spire, and window, Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah. (090316-19)
Download ImageNormal faults in sandstone (vertical)

Offset sandstone blocks on normal faults, just outside gate to Arches National Park, Utah (090317-22)
Download ImageCretaceous sandstone and shale

Cretaceous sandstone and shale, central Utah. (090315-7)
Download ImageNormal faults in sandstone, Utah

Offset sandstone blocks on normal faults, just outside gate to Arches National Park, Utah (090317-18)
Download ImageDifferential Erosion, Arches, Utah

Sandstone spire, capped by more resistant sandstone, Arches National Park, Utah. (090316-97)
Download ImageDepositional contact, Utah

Depositional contact and erosional windows, Jurassic Entrada Fm (red) overlying Jurassic Navajo Sandstone (white), Arches National Park, Utah. (090316-115)
Download ImageCoal seam, Utah

Narrow (about 1m thick) seam of anthracite coal within Cretaceous sandstone, central Utah. (090315-29)
Download ImageCoal seam, Utah (vertical)

Narrow anthracite coal seam (about 1m thick) in Cretaceous rock, Utah. (090315-27)
Download ImageBonneville Shorelines, Utah.

Aerial view of Bonneville Shorelines, Promontory Mtns., Great Salt Lake, Utah. These Shorelines formed during the Pleistocene Epoch, when the present-day Great Salt Lake was the much larger Lake Bonneville. (090121-7)
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Aerial view of Bonneville Shorelines, Promontory Mtns., Great Salt Lake, Utah. These Shorelines formed during the Pleistocene Epoch, when the present-day Great Salt Lake was the much larger Lake Bonneville. (090121-8)
Download ImageFog over Great Salt Lake, Utah.

Aerial view of Fog over Great Salt Lake, Utah. View is over Antelope Island to Stansbury Island in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. (090121-9)
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