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