Highway 24

Southern Utah

We started on Highway 24 from Highway 12 going northward.
Highway 24 first crosses through Capitol Reef National Park.
Capitol Reef is a free park that seldom gets seen because of the popularity of nearby parks. Pocketed sandstone walls follow after Capitol Reef . Soon after, you get to Cainville, which has an impressive mesa, that I didn't get any pictures of. We stopped three times along the way, one at a fossil quarry, another at an ancient riverbed, and the third at a seldom visited mesa near Goblin Valley.


SOUTH WEST UTAH
Grosvenor Arch Calf Creek Falls Grosvenor Arch Video Calf Creek Falls Video Highway 12 - 24 July Highway 12 - 24 Video Cedar Canyon Kodachrome Basin Highway 12 Southern Utah Kolob Canyon - Zion Zion - Observation Point Coral Pink Sand Dunes Angels Landing View Video Zion Panorama Video



Monday, October 22, 2001



Highway 24 cephalopods

Our first stop along Highway 24.
This hillside was covered in cephalopod fossils.
Almost every "rock" you see is a fossilized sea-snail.


mesa sediments

This sediment layer had some interesting layers.
One was completely transparent like thin glass.


highway 24

This is a common sight along this highway.


riverbed mesa

Our second stop along Highway 24.
This mesa is covered in ancient riverbed rocks.
Miles of polished rocks of every color.


Highway 24 mesas

Atop the mesa looking northwest.


Henry Mountains

Atop the same mesa looking south toward the Henry Mountains.


Highway 24 strata

The same mesa, looking northwest.
A blocky layer of strata crumbles in the foreground.


Highway 24

More homogenized sandstone.


Temple Mountain

Looking northwest toward Temple Mountain from Highway 24.


Goblin Valley

Looking northwest toward Goblin Valley from Highway 24.



Special thanks to Denyse

SOUTH WEST UTAH
Grosvenor Arch Calf Creek Falls Grosvenor Arch Video Calf Creek Falls Video Highway 12 - 24 July Highway 12 - 24 Video Cedar Canyon Kodachrome Basin Highway 12 Southern Utah Kolob Canyon - Zion Zion - Observation Point Coral Pink Sand Dunes Angels Landing View Video Zion Panorama Video



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Rachid
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Réghaia Near
Algiers
2008-05-25
Big Job ! Some landviews have similarity with South Algerian places.That mean
the result of the same geological activities ? Possible and the animals and
human traces ?? Why similar ? Best greetings from the same hot area.




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