Christa Sadler
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The Grand Staircase region, located in Southern Utah, is highly regarded as one of the best places in the world to study the period near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs -a time called the Late Cretaceous. In a relatively short period (geologically speaking) of about 25 million years, southern Utah was at times covered with an ocean teeming with life, swampy shorelines, and massive rivers draining a huge mountain range in the west. This diversity of...
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This field guide will help you understand and appreciate the geologic record of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - a wild, remote area within the vast, undeveloped landscape of the frontier American West. The incredible wealth of geologic information in this area was a major reason for its designation as a national monument in 1996.
The unique layout of this guide allows you to follow important markers whether you're traveling from Scenic...