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Click here to see a geologic image tour of Canyonlands National Park. Website images include both standard photograph and 3D views (as anaglyphs - requiring red-and-cyan 3D viewing glasses). This view shows the White Rim Sandstone forming clifftop ledges along the canyon of the Green River. To learn more about Canyonlands National Park check out the National Park Service website at: http://www.nps.gov/cany/. |
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Generalized stratigraphy after Hintze, L.F., 1988, Geologic History of Utah; A Field Guide to Utah's Rocks: Brigham Young University Geology Studies Special Publication 7, p. 171 and 183 [Uinta Basin charts 67 and 83]; and, Baars, D.L., 2000, Geology of Canyonlands National Park: In Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments, Sprinkel, D.A., Chidsey, T.C., and Anderson, P.B., eds., Utah Geological Association Publication 28., p. 61-83. Stratigraphic unit information is modified from the USGS GeoLex (Lexicon of Geology): http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/geolex_qs.html. A generalized geologic time scale is available at: http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/coloradoplateau/timescale.htm. |
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