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Zion National Park

Checkerboard Mesa
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 Navajo sandstone

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2,200 ft thickness

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consists almost entirely of desert sand dunes.

Two sets of lines form the Checkerboard pattern :

1. horizontal lines : layers of wind-blown sand that buit up into sand dunes.

2. vertical lines (less common) : stress and erosion on the rock surface (expansion/contraction, temperature changes, wetting/drying...)

 

Zion Canyon seen from West Temple.

 

Fort Zion !
 

 
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