Geology of National Parks, 3D and Photographic Tours
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Click here to see a geologic image tour of Arches National Park. Website images include both standard photograph and 3D views (as anaglyphs - requiring red-and-cyan 3D viewing glasses). This image shows Delicate Arch in the Entrada Sandstone. Morrison Formation crops out in the Salt Valley Wash in the distance. |
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Generalized stratigraphy after Doelling, Helmut H., 2000, Geology of Arches National Park, Grand
County, Utah: In Geology of Utah's Parks and Monuments, Sprinkel,
D.A., Chidsey, T. C., and Anderson, P. B., editors, Utah Geological Association
Publication 28., p. 11-36.
Stratigraphic unit information is modified from the USGS GeoLex (Lexicon of Geology): http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/geolex_qs.html. Information about the Geologic Time Scale is available here. |