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The Glen Canyon Group is a geologic group of formations that is spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, north west New Mexico and western Colorado.It is called the Glen Canyon Sandstone in the Green River Basin of Colorado and Utah.
Glen Canyon Glen Canyon in 1873, near the confluence of the Colorado and San Juan Rivers. Glen Canyon is a natural canyon carved by a 169.6-mile (272.9 km) length of the Colorado River, mostly in southeastern and south-central Utah, in the United States.
The Wingate Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States which crops out in northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Geology
Double Arch, a frequently visited geologic feature in Glen Canyon’s Rock Creek Bay, gave way to the elements on Thursday, the National Park Service says. No one was injured as a result of the ...
The “Double Arch” geologic feature was also known by other names, including the “Toilet Bowl,” “Crescent Pool,” and “Hole in the Roof.” ... Glen Canyon NRA spreads out over 1.25 ...
Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. In most sections that include all three geologic formations of the Glen Canyon group the Kayenta is easily recognized. Even at a distance it appears as a dark-red, maroon, or lavender band of thin-bedded material between two thick, massive, cross bedded strata of buff, tan, or light-red ...
Golden Cathedral. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (shortened to Glen Canyon NRA or GCNRA) is a national recreation area and conservation unit of the United States National Park Service that encompasses the area around Lake Powell and lower Cataract Canyon in Utah and Arizona, covering 1,254,429 acres (5,076.49 km 2) of mostly rugged high desert terrain.
Glen Canyon Group in southeast Utah. At top are massive beds of Navajo Sandstone separated by thinner beds of the Kayenta Formation from massive beds at bottom of the Wingate Sandstone. In geology, a group is a lithostratigraphic unit consisting of a series of related formations that have been classified together to form a group. Formations are ...