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Grand Wash / Superimposed Stream
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1010 1339 (2010-10-14)Copyright © 2010 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Jul 17, 2009
location
Capitol Reef National Park. Near Torrey (Wayne County, Utah, US)habitat desertnotes This narrow canyon -- only 20 feet wide in places -- is one of the few passable routes through Capitol Reef. The wash has cut through hundreds of feet of Wingate Sandstone. It is the result of a superimposed stream that developed on a relatively flat plain in mid-Tertiary time, after the Laramide Orogeny. It resumed downcutting during a period of rapid uplift of the Colorado Plateau in the last five million years.keywords: geology, earth science, sandstone, erg, Triassic, Mesozoic, uplift, erosion, geomorphology
camera Canon 40D, 15mm, f/20, 1/200 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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