Region south of Toquerville, and south of the Virgin River. Pine Valley
Mountains in the distance. Washington County, Utah.
USGS Earth Science Photographic Archive digital file:hjk00703
Toquerville is along Interstate 15 at the exit to Highway 17 that leads
east to Highway 9 (the main highway through Zion National Park). This region
is heavily developed today, mostly with residential housing communities.
The twin peaks are remnants of volcanoes that erupted in late Tertiary time
along the Hurricane Fault system that runs north-to-south along the west-facing
escarpment that forms the elevated canyon country at Zion National Park. |