Kodels Canyon Fault. Colorado National Monument, Colorado. 1970.
Dates
Date Taken
1970-05-29
Summary
Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Kodels Canyon Fault, looking northwest across the mouth of Fruita Canyon from a point on Rim Rock Drive. Here, along a normal fault dipping steeply northeastward, the 350-foot cliff of Wingate Sandstone on the upper left has been sheared and squeezed into only a few feet of broken rock overlain by a steep slope of the Kayenta Formation covered by pinon and juniper. The thinner cliff on the right is the Entrada Sandstone which belongs high atop the cliffs on the left. Book Cliffs form the distant skyline on the right. May 29, 1970. Figure 31, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
Summary
Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Kodels Canyon Fault, looking northwest across the mouth of Fruita Canyon from a point on Rim Rock Drive. Here, along a normal fault dipping steeply northeastward, the 350-foot cliff of Wingate Sandstone on the upper left has been sheared and squeezed into only a few feet of broken rock overlain by a steep slope of the Kayenta Formation covered by pinon and juniper. The thinner cliff on the right is the Entrada Sandstone which belongs high atop the cliffs on the left. Book Cliffs form the distant skyline on the right. May 29, 1970. Figure 31, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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