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91 Slides: 67 on UT 95 from Hanksville to Blanding;
9 on UT 275 (Natural Bridges National Monument); 15 on UT 161 (Goosenecks and Moki Dugway)
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Bicentennial Highway
Jun 07 2021 - 2:49 pm
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Henry Mountains to the south
Jun 07 2021 - 1:39 pm
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Desert to the north
Jun 07 2021 - 1:46 pm
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Bull Mountain (9,187') background (l to r): Mt. Ellen (11,522') and Mt. Pennel (11,371') highest peaks in the Henry Mountains
Jun 07 2021 - 2:04 pm
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Entrada Sandstone capped by rounded gravel
Jun 07 2021 - 2:21 pm
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Like today
Jun 07 2021 - 2:25 pm
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UT 276 leads to a ferry across Lake Powell closed because of low water
Jun 07 2021 - 2:28 pm
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Just beyond the intersection UT 95 curves left into North Wash draining Mt. Ellen (UT 95 follows the wash to its confluence with the Colorado River)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:30 pm
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Entrada Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 2:33 pm
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Jurassic fossilized sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 2:34 pm
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Entrada Sandstone (ancient cross-bedded sand dunes)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:36 pm
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from bottom: Triassic Moenkopi and Chinle formations, Jurassic Wingate and Entrada sandstones
Jun 07 2021 - 2:39 am
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Tafoni (common in all sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:45 pm
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Hog Springs Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
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Hog Springs at the head of the wash (perhaps on impermeable Chinle shales at the base of permeable Wingate-Entrada sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:51 pm
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Entrada - Wingate sandstone cliff sandwiched between Jurassic Morrison and Triassic Chinle shales
Jun 07 2021 - 2:53 pm
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Hanging valley on White Rim-Cedar Sandstone (note seepage along the entire valley floor)
Jun 07 2021 - 2:55 pm
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Permian White Rim Sandstone below thin Triassic Chinle and Moenkopi shales and Navajo Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:02 pm
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Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Jun 07 2021 - 3:00 pm
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Red rocks all around
Jun 07 2021 - 3:09 pm
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North Wash emptying into the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:16 pm
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Telephoto of the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:17 pm
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Confluence of North Wash-foreground, Dirty Devil River-left, and Colorado River-background, all entreched about 100' into the White Rim Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:22 pm
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North Wash upstream stripping Moenkopi shales from White Rim Sandstone (enigmatic white band in the Moenkopi Formation)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
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Another view of stripped surface (paying no attention to slope angle is the enigma)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:23 pm
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Utah 95 in red rock country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:27 pm
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Henry Mountains visible to the west
Jun 07 2021 - 3:28 pm
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Lake Powell is 138' below pool level covering the parking lot
Jun 07 2021 - 3:30 pm
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Notch through the Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 3:32 pm
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Parabolic arch bridge over the Colorado River
Jun 07 2021 - 3:33 pm
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White Rim Sandstone surface (Dirty Devil River cuts the 100' deep canyon in the middle of the surface)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:37 pm
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Dirty Devil River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:42 pm
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Arched below the pavement
Jun 07 2021 - 3:48 pm
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Dirty Devil River Canyon entrenched 100 feet in the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone
Jun 07 2021 - 3:46 pm
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Hoodoo weathering in ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 3:49 pm
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UT 95 between the Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers
Jun 07 2021 - 3:50 pm
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Weathering resembles a sitting dinosaur in dinosaur country
Jun 07 2021 - 3:52 pm
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Red Moenkopi Formation Monuments
Jun 07 2021 - 3:55 pm
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Colorado River entrenched 100 feet into the White Rim-Cedar Mesa Sandstone (Mesozoic section up to Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone in background)
Jun 07 2021 - 3:56 pm
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Colorado River Bridge
Jun 07 2021 - 3:58 pm
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Arched partially above the roadway
May 17 2013 - 3:59 pm
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Weathered cross-bedding indicates ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:02 pm
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Henry Mountains over ancient sand dunes
Jun 07 2021 - 4:05 pm
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Permian White Rim Sandstone forms a major stripped surface in this region
Jun 07 2021 - 4:10 pm
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Moenkopi Formation
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
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Road 3 miles to Lake Powell
Jun 07 2021 - 4:38 pm
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Colorado River terraces gravels
Jun 07 2021 - 4:34 pm
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No Lake Powell, about 140' below pool level
Jun 07 2021 - 4:31 pm
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Turn around point
Jun 07 2021 - 4:36 pm
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Back to UT 95
Jun 07 2021 - 4:11 pm
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White Rim Sandstone surface (overlain by Moenkopi-Chinle slopes below Wingate-Navajo-Kayenta {Glen Canyon Group} and Entrada cliffs)
Jun 07 2021 - 4:49 pm
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Henry Mountains over Moenkopi shales
Jun 07 2021 - 4:52 pm
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Jacobs Chair (6,784')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:04 pm
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The Cheesebox (6,318')
Jun 07 2021 - 5:24 pm
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UT 275 "Trail of the Ancients" to Natural Bridges National Monument
from NBNM Website
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White Rim Sandstone surface and about 100' entrenchment by the washes (narrow canyons to flush sediment from the area in sparse rains)
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
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Telephoto of weathered scour
May 23 2021 - 3:47 pm
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Natural Bridge
May 17 2013 - 6:26 pm
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Telephoto of the White Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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Deep Canyon
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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Headward stream erosion (dry watering holes aligned in lieu of streams on sandstone surface perhaps becoming a canyon)
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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One way loop road in the National Monument
May 23 2021 - 4:09 pm
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Gliding golden eagle checked us out
May 17 2013 - 6:29 pm
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UT 261: Valley of the Gods, Moki Dugway, and Cedar Mesa
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Valley of the Gods
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
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A glimpse of Monument Valley
May 23 2021 - 2:23 pm
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UT 316 a four mile jaunt and back to the Goosenecks of the San Juan River
May 18 2013 - 6:23 pm
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West Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:50 pm
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East Gooseneck
May 18 2013 - 6:49 pm
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River first then slope erosion polishes resistant sandstone surfaces
May 18 2013 - 6:52 pm
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Back to UT 216, Valley of the Gods in front of eastern limb of Monument Uplift
May 23 2021 - 2:30 pm
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Approaching Permian White Rim and Cedar Mesa sandstone cliffs (unpaved Moki Dugway ascends the cliffs)
May 23 2021 - 2:43 pm
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Pavement ends, start of Moki Dugway
May 23 2021 - 2:52 pm
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Switchbacks on Moki Dugway
May 18 2013 - 7:21 pm
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On a switchback approaching White Rim Sandstone which caps the plateau beyond
May 23 2021 - 3:00 pm
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Topographic map of the Moki Dugway
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East limb of the Monument Uplift (Carizzo Mountains in Arizona in background)
May 23 2021 - 2:56 pm
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Bear Ears rising above surface of Cedar Mesa leading 20 miles back to UT 95
May 23 2021 - 3:06 pm
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Back to UT 95 over Salvation Knoll (salvation to lost party of pioneers when they could see landmark Abajo (Blue) Mountains in the background)
Jun 07 2021 - 5:55 pm
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UT 95 through the Comb Ridge Monocline (road cut through the Wingate-Entrada sandstones)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:01 pm
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Different lighting on sections of Comb Ridge
Jun 07 2021 - 6:06 pm
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Approaching the road cut through Wingate-Entrada sandstones
May 23 2021 - 5:14 pm
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Road cut
May 23 2021 - 5:15 pm
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Comb Ridge and view of UT 95 just driven
Jun 07 2021 - 6:13 pm
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East side of Comb Ridge (dip slope of Entrada Sandstone)
Jun 07 2021 - 6:17 pm
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San Miguel and San Juan Mountains
May 23 2021 - 6:03 pm
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(from left): Lone Cone, San Miguel Mountains, San Juan Mountains, La Plata Mountains
May 23 2021 - 5:08 pm
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Tumbled block of Dakota Sandstone
May 23 2021 - 5:26 pm - 5:07 pm
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Abajo Mountains from the south end of UT 95
May 23 2021 - 6:06 pm
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South end of UT 95
US 191 4 miles south of Blanding