This view is looking down on the Rim Rock Drive-the main route through the national monument. This view shows the massive cliffs of the Wingate Sandstone above the red, shaly slopes of the underlying Chinle Formation. Gray Precambrian-age rocks are exposed inside the loop in the road and along the stream bed. The very cap of the cliff consists of another Lower Jurassic-age sandstone called the Kayenta Formation. Click here to see a complete stratigraphic column for Colorado National Monument.

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