Mouth of Salt Wash, viewed across the Colorado River. Arches National Park, Utah. 1971.
Dates
Date Taken
1971
Summary
Album caption and index card: Mouth of Salt Wash, viewed across the Colorado River from a point on State Highway 128, 11 miles above Moab Bridge. Dark cliffs on the upper right and left are of Wingate Sandstone capped by a thin protective cover of resistant sandstone beds of the Kayenta Formation. In the background, Wingate is overlain by entire Kayenta Formation and the lower part of the Navajo Sandstone. Wingate is underlain to river level by weathered slope of the Chinle Formation. Water in Salt Wash is largely backwater from the bank-full river. Actual flow in the wash is generally much less, but at times reaches flood proportions. Arches National Park. Grand County, Utah. June 17, 1971. Note: Published as figure 21 in U.S. Geological [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: Mouth of Salt Wash, viewed across the Colorado River from a point on State Highway 128, 11 miles above Moab Bridge. Dark cliffs on the upper right and left are of Wingate Sandstone capped by a thin protective cover of resistant sandstone beds of the Kayenta Formation. In the background, Wingate is overlain by entire Kayenta Formation and the lower part of the Navajo Sandstone. Wingate is underlain to river level by weathered slope of the Chinle Formation. Water in Salt Wash is largely backwater from the bank-full river. Actual flow in the wash is generally much less, but at times reaches flood proportions. Arches National Park. Grand County, Utah. June 17, 1971.
Note: Published as figure 21 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1393. 1975.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Lohman, S.W.
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