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GLY 3163 Exam 3: ZION AND BRYCE Questions and Answers 100% Solved where is zion national park located? - Southwest Utah how deep is zion canyon? what rocks make up zion canyon? - Zion Canyon (3000 ft deep) is a relatively young canyon cut by the Virgin River through Mesozoic sedimentary rocks ...

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GLY 3163 Exam 3: ZION AND BRYCE

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where is zion national park located? - ✔✔Southwest Utah

how deep is zion canyon? what rocks make up zion canyon? - ✔✔Zion

Canyon (3000 ft deep) is a relatively young canyon cut by the Virgin River

through Mesozoic sedimentary rocks with spectacular near- vertical walls

and towers. Flows into Lake Mead; southeastern part of zion park

what cliffs does zion canyon have? - ✔✔Zion canyon features massive

sandstone cliffs formed from fossil dunes from desert. The White Cliffs is

the name applied to erosional escarpments of Navajo Sandstone

throughout the region.

what is the grand staircase in the colorado plateau? - ✔✔Predominantly

nonmarine sedimentary rocks; cenozoic and mesozoic; white to red to pink

steps in cliffs; stretches from south to white cliffs of cross-bedded navajo

sandstone to pink cliffs at bryce park

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hurricane fault (what breaks up the colorado plateau?) - ✔✔uplifted the

western side of Colorado Plateau in places to elevations greater than

10,000 ft

Zion National Park Stratigraphic Chart - ✔✔Sedimentary rock units in Zion

Canyon are mostly Mesozoic terrestrial deposits (non-marine) deposited

from streams, lakes, estuaries, and desert sand dunes

oldest rocks are limestone

jurassic-age fossilized sand dunes of navajo

age of rocks from grand canyon to bryce canyon (through zion park)? -

✔✔paleozoic to cenozoic era preserved in these 3 parks

most famous (sandstone) landforms in zion? - ✔✔Checkerboard Mesa:

Cross-bedded Navajo sandstone (fossilized sand dunes)

Vertical joints that intersect beds at nearly right angles, these tectonic joints

are common to zion and form weak zones that allow water to seap into

cracks and gradually erode

how do sand dunes develop? - ✔✔Sand is transported over the top of a

dune

in the direction of the wind.

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