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Surprise Canyon / Capitol Reef National Park
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0311 1425 (2011-03-08)Copyright © 2011 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Jul 18, 2009
location
Capitol Reef National Park (Wayne County, Utah, US)notes Mouth of Surprise Canyon. This narrow canyon is one of many impassable dead-ends cut into the Capitol Reef. This opening on the east-facing side of the reef, a monocline dipping toward the camera, slices through more than 1000 feet of Navajo Sandstone. The formation was created from Sahara-like dunes during the early Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago. The Navajo Sandstone (white) is overlain here by the softer red-brown siltstones, sandstones and mudstones of the Carmel Formation.keywords: Navajo Sandstone, geology, earth science, erosion, geomorphology, Jurassic, Mesozoic
camera Canon 40D, 78mm, f/10, 1/1600 sec
photo category: Misc. - geology
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