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Utah - Notch Peak & House Range


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High point (9654 ft/2943 m) of the House Range in the Basin and Range of western Utah. This is not the sort of country that evokes "Utah" for most people, but it's a major part of the state! Marjum Pass is in a separate album.

Limestone cliffs

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Swasey Limestone (Middle Cambrian), House Range, western Utah. Looking northwest over Tule Valley. The views are hazy due to smoke from the California wildfires several hundred miles west!

Limestone cliffs

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Just west of Swasey Peak in the House Range, western Utah. The prominent cliff at the right is formed by the Swasey Limestone; the lower one left of center is the lower part of the Dome Limestone. All the units are Middle Cambrian in age. We're in the so-called Cordilleran Miogeosyncline here, a thick sequence of sedimentary rocks now interpreted to be the continental margin at that time, ca. 500 million years ago. The views should be _lots_ clearer--it's murky due to smoke from the California wildfires several hundred miles west! The Inset shows a slightly different view.

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Wild Horse Canyon


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