Indians in Kane County

 The Utes are Indians that lived in Kane, County Utah. They have many different kinds of clothing and they used tee pee's for their homes. The Utes is how Utah got its name.

 The Navajo's and their hut. The Navajo's make many different colorful kinds of blankets,clothing,and shoes. Their shoes are called moccasins. They live in huts made out of dirt and rocks.

The Paiute's lived in cone-shaped wickiups (especially in winter) or in the open air. Later some used tepees. They wear lots of clothes and carry their water on their backs. The parents make carriers for their babies and they carry their babies on their backs. The Paiute's hunted Buffalo and used them for clothes,blankets,and food.

Sandstone and Sedimentary Rocks, and Limestone Rock formations are found in Kane County!

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 cliffs

                                                            limestone rock formations

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.

Here are some interesting facts:

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:

The Grand Staircase