File:Wingate Sandstone (Lower Jurassic; Coke Ovens, Monument Canyon, Colorado National Monument, Colorado, USA) 2 (23386813253).jpg

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Quartzose sandstone in the Jurassic of Colorado, USA.

Colorado National Monument is a colorful and scenic park just southwest of the town of Grand Junction in western Colorado, USA. It's located in the northeastern part of the Colorado Plateau Physiographic Province, a large section of continental crust that was significant uplifted during the Cenozoic. The rocks in the park are gently folded into a large monocline that has been erosionally dissected into a series of dramatic canyons.

The major cliff shown above is the Wingate Sandstone (Middle Jurassic), which is the principal scenery-making unit in the park. It consists of eolian, cross-bedded quartzose sandstones deposited in an ancient sand dune field.

Locality: Coke Ovens, Monument Canyon, Colorado National Monument, southwest of the town of Grand Junction, west-central Mesa County, far-western Colorado, USA
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Author James St. John

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