In Kane County you can find towering Sandstone Cliffs. In addition you can also find some of the world's most unusual limestone rock formations located in Bryce Canyon. Here is a picture from Kane County:
Sandstone: Sandstone
is composed of cemented sand grains and is the cliff-forming rock
commonly seen in southern Utah. A famous formation is the Navajo Sandstone
which forms Checkerboard Mesa in Zion National Park.
The
nine known exposed geologic
formations in
Zion National Park are part of a super-sequence of rock units called
the Grand
Staircase.
Together, these formations represent about 150 million years of
mostly Mesozoic-agedsedimentation in
that part of North America. The formations exposed in the Zion area
were deposited as sediment in
very different environments:
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| The Grand Staircase |
