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Gallery: San Rafael Swell Geology

San Rafael Swell Geology

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Geological GigaPans from the San Rafael Swell region.

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Ron Schott
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  1. Hand shot pano of sunrise at the wedge overlook in central utah above the San Rafael River

  2. Early evening pano of the amazing view from the Wedge Overlook above the San Rafael River in Central Utah. This area is some times called the Little Grand Canyon for obvious reasons. I think this is one of the most spectacular views in Utah. I've been trying to find the time to make it down there and shoot a gigapan fo...

  3. Overcast skies, unfortunately.

  4. Better overall exposure this time.

  5. I'm afraid I overexposed this one. [Not as badly as I'd first feared.]

  6. Desert on the way to Black Rock City.

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  7. Dominating the landscape with its sawtooth ridge of giant flatirons is the San Rafael Reef. The San Rafael Reef is the dramatic eastern boundary of the San Rafael Swell, a large, kidney-shaped topographic feature that began as an uplift of rock 40 to 60 million years ago. Erosion left the canyons and cliffs that have b...

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  8. The cliff is composed of Jurassic Summerville Formation - interlayered shale and gypsum beds. Cutting across this are large veins of hydrothermally remobilized gypsum. On a smaller scale there are many more smaller gypsum veins cutting the entire formation.

  9. Located near the entrance to Goblin Valley State Park, Wild Horse Butte is composed of Entrada Sandstone at its base, overlain by light colored Curtis Formation, the cliff face forming Summerville Formation and a cap of Morrison Formation. All of these units were deposited during the Jurassic period. A portion of the...

  10. This is in the southeastern quadrant of the San Rafael Swell. I've previously GigaPanned the eastern margin of the swell, north of here where I-70 pierces it (www.gigapan.org/gigapans/32536/).

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