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| View looking downstream from the White House Overlook. The cliffs on the left show streaks of desert varnish on cliffs of De Chelly Sandstone. The dark red and white caprock on the Defiance Plateau at Canyon de Chelly is Shinarump Conglomerate. These sedimentary layers gently dip to the southwest into the Black Mesa Basin; Cretaceous sedimentary rocks cap Black Mesa in the distance (to the west, on the upper left in this image). |
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The URL is: https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/cach/html/cdc1631.htm |