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as you come around the corner and drive a little further past the Toadstools TH you have a little of this kind of scenery. More: pictures and movies on the 89 [ youtube video ]
Like a giant layer cake, the land of the Escalante reveals stratigraphy in plain daylight. The staircase was so named due to the immense sequence of its sedimentary rock layers from Bryce Canyon in the north to the Grand Canyon in the south. In the 1870’s, geologist Clarence Dutton first thought of this region as a stairway with the cliff edge of each layer forming giant steps. The rocks composing the Toadstools are among the youngest layers.
Moreover, Grand Staircase National Monument (GESNM) and the area near the Toadstools in particular, are known for dinosaur fossils. GESNM in recent years has yielded a bounty of fossilized discoveries, including the skull of an adult tyrannosaur and a tyrannosaur toe bone. These ancient predators known as tyrannosaurs are quite rare in the fossil record. https://www.southwestdiscoveries.com/hi ... oadstools/
Like a giant layer cake, the land of the Escalante reveals stratigraphy in plain daylight. The staircase was so named due to the immense sequence of its sedimentary rock layers from Bryce Canyon in the north to the Grand Canyon in the south. In the 1870’s, geologist Clarence Dutton first thought of this region as a stairway with the cliff edge of each layer forming giant steps. The rocks composing the Toadstools are among the youngest layers.
Moreover, Grand Staircase National Monument (GESNM) and the area near the Toadstools in particular, are known for dinosaur fossils. GESNM in recent years has yielded a bounty of fossilized discoveries, including the skull of an adult tyrannosaur and a tyrannosaur toe bone. These ancient predators known as tyrannosaurs are quite rare in the fossil record. https://www.southwestdiscoveries.com/hi ... oadstools/