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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. 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...

  2. View from a scenic pulloff on I 70 travelling through Utah.

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  3. beautiful day

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  4. 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/).

  5. 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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  6. Overcast skies, unfortunately.

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

  8. Better overall exposure this time.

  9. Desert on the way to Black Rock City.

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