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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Independence Monument, separating the two entrances of Monument Canyon, looking north from Grand View. Colorado River, Grand Valley, and Book Cliffs in the distance. Roan Cliffs are white cliffs at extreme distance on the right skyline. Dark rock flooring the canyon is Proterozoic metamorphic rock. Red material in the slope at the base of the cliffs is the Chinle Formation. Vertical cliffs are Wingate Sandstone. Thin protective caprock on the top of the cliffs is lower sandstone of the resistant Kayenta Formation. The top of Independence Monument is nearly 450 feet above the floor of the canyon. Figure 6, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Slick Rock Member of Entrada Sandstone in the west arm of Ute Canyon. Kayenta Formation, Slick Rock Member. Moab Member and Summerville and Morrison Formations poorly exposed above the cliff. Circa 1950. Figure 13, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Lower part of the Summerville Formation along Rim Rock Drive at Artists Point. Circa 1950. Figure 18, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Cold Shivers Point, looking north from the fenced overlook on the east edge of Columbus Canyon. The named feature is a toadstool-shaped rock on the upper right. Note dark Proterozoic rocks in the canyon bottom. May 1970. Figure 53, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Top of Old Serpents Trail, looking northeast from the switchbacks above the tunnel. The sign on the lower right marks the top of the trail. Grand Mesa forms the right skyline. September 18, 1970. Figure 54, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Lizard Canyon Monocline, looking southeastward across Lizard Canyon and the north entrance of Monument Canyon from a point on Rim Rock Drive. Note the sharp upper bend on the right and the gentle lower bend on the left. Strata range from Chinle Formation in the canyon on the right to Burro Canyon Formation capping the low hogback on the left. Circa 1950. Figure 33, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Balanced Rock near the head of Fruita Canyon. Spire and rock are Wingate Sandstone resting on red Chinle Formation. Thin caprock is a protective layer of resistant Kayenta Formation. December 2, 1976. Frontispiece, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Fallen Rock, in the west arm of Ute Canyon below the waterfall, viewed from Fallen Rock Overlook. The sun-facing left side of the canyon, containing the fallen block of Wingate Sandstone, is a vertical cliff; whereas the shaded right side can be readily climbed. The right side contains a trail near the middle of the photo, but it is hidden by vegetation. May 28, 1970. Figure 35, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Erosional unconformity between the Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone and the Kayenta Formation along Rim Rock Drive in the SE 1/4 sec. 13, T. 11 S.R. 102 W. Circa 1950. Figure 12, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Balanced Rock in Fruita Canyon. September 1963.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. The Coke Ovens. September 1963.
Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Kayenta Formation in a cut along Rim Rock Drive near the elbow of Ute Canyon. Note irregular lens of red siltstone near the base and irregular bedding of sandstone above. Circa 1950. Figure 11, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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Mottled salmon and white Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone overlain by white Moab Member in the southwestern part of Ute Canyon. Colorado National Monument, Colorado.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Northwest from a point northeast of Monument Canyon view. Thin-bedded Kayenta Formation protecting the underlying cliff of softer Wingate Sandstone. Rim Rock Drive is on the bench of Kayenta close to the thinner cliff of Entrada Sandstone in the background. October 3, 1969. Figure 13, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Ute Canyon, looking northeast from Lower Ute Canyon View. Grass-covered alluvium in the distant part of the canyon floor. September 18, 1970. Figure 52, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Eastern end of Kodels Canyon Fault on the west side of Fruita Canyon. There is no visible displacement except for considerable thinning of Wingate Sandstone. The high cliff of Wingate Sandstone on the left rests on slopes of Chinle Formation. The pinon and juniper-covered slope near the middle is Kayenta Formation resting on thinned Wingate Sandstone. Entrada Sandstone forms the low cliffs on the right. Circa 1950. Figure 32, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 451.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Updragged Wingate Sandstone along Redlands Fault, looking northwest from a side road 1.5 miles southwest of the intersection of South Camp Road and South Broadway. The white "pimple" atop the cliff near the left skyline is Liberty Cap, an erosional remnant of the Wingate Sandstone, reachable via the Liberty Cap Trail. Here the Chinle Formation was largely squeezed out along the fault. 1976. Figure 38, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Glade Park Fault, crossing the head of No Thoroughfare Canyon. View is southeast from Little Park Road just southeast of the new Monument boundary. The fault passes just to the right of the white cliff of Wingate Sandstone near the bottom through a notch in the east wall of the canyon. The surface to the right (south) of the fault has dropped about 50 feet below the left side. Grand Mesa forms the skyline. 1976. Figure 58, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1508.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Looking north down Ute Canyon. Circa 1950.
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Colorado National Monument, Colorado. Red Canyon, looking northeast from Red Canyon Overlook. The canyon mouth frames Grand Junction. Battlement Mesa and Grand Mesa form the left and right skylines. Note the nearly vertical southeastward-facing cliff on the left and the more subdued northwestward- facing slopes on the right. Circa 1950. Figure 30, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 451.
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