On May 15, 2014, at 5:49 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 14, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Brian Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here's the latest batch of pictures from last weekend. The first link is to >> a ghost town just outside of Zion called Grafton. Parts of Butch Cassidy and >> the Sundance Kid were filmed there. The second & third links are to a couple >> of views of Zion from Smith Mesa. >> >> <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Grafton/index.html> >> <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Pages/SmithMesaSunset.html> >> <http://brianspics.wittybanter.org/Zion/Pages/KolobSunset.html> > > I really like that Kolob Sunset. That thin white strata really stands out in > that light. I wonder what massive catastrophe THAT came from :-) It's actually caused by a change in the amount of iron being deposited with that layer. Zion has a large white layer of sandstone, the Navajo Formation, on top of the more massive red lower layer, the Kayenta Formation. -- Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
