Island Park, Green River. Dinosaur National Monument.
Uintah County, Utah. July 1871.
USGS Earth Science Photographic Archive digital file: hjk00681
At the downstream end of Whirlpool Canyon, the bedrock changes from Paleozoic
age to Mesozoic age. Cliffs of cross-bedded sandstone of the Glen Canyon
Formation (Late Triassic to Early Jurassic) crop out around the broad cove
at Island Park. |