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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 cliff shown above is the major scenery-making stratigraphic unit in Colorado National Monument. This is the Wingate Sandstone (Lower Jurassic). It consists of eolian quartzose sandstones deposited in an ancient sand dune field. The reddish-brown coloration is staining from hematite (Fe2O3 - iron oxide).

Locality: No Thoroughfare Canyon, southeastern 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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