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In the Red Rock Canyon BLM interpretive area, just west of Las Vegas. The area isn't really a "canyon" but a sandstone escarpment that runs along the east side of the Spring Mountains. But there are lots of canyons cutting thru this escarpment, as here! The sandstone unit is correlative with the Navajo Sandstone of Utah and Arizona (Zion, Glen Canyon), but for historical reasons has a different name here.

Hematitic concretions in a block of Aztec Sandstone. Coffee cup for scale. Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area, southern Nevada, USA.

Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area, southern Nevada, USA. Only about 10 airline miles west of Las Vegas.

At the trailhead. First Creek, Red Rock Canyon Recreation Lands, Nevada, USA. Just 15 airline miles or so from the Las Vegas Strip(!)