Currently Barbara and I are staying at the Indian Peaks RV park just south of Cedar City, Utah. This is a no frills park, located on Cedar Band Tribal land, with great views of the surrounding areas, hiking trails and is not far from two national parks and two national monuments, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Cedar Breaks and Escalante Grand Staircase, respectively. So with the national parks and the amazing geology in the area coupled with a lot of places to go hiking I’m enjoying myself here.
Where we are staying currently is adjacent to and active fault that separates the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau geomorphic provenances. This morning I took a hike to an area that shows some of the transition between these two provenances. As the rocks that make up the Colorado Plateau rose approximately 70 million years ago they caused the adjacent rocks in the Basin and Range to bend (fold) upward. These sedimentary rocks were laid down horizontally but are now standing straight up as you will see in one of the photos below.
Just like the area that Barbara and I visited the other day with our friends Kathy and Shane, this area received abundant precipitation this past winter and spring, so there are a lot of wildflowers to see and enjoy. In addition, lizards are coming out and I saw several along the trail. I even some scat from a carnivore. I didn’t take a photo but it contained a lot of grey fur.
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