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A balanced boulder over Wide Hollow Reservoir, Escalante Petrified Forest

Fig. 1A balanced boulder over Wide Hollow Reservoir, Escalante Petrified Forest

Photo: James St. John · CC BY 2.0

Landform

Morrison hills above Wide Hollow Reservoir — juniper, a balanced boulder, and petrified wood on a short desert trail, not the Arizona park of the same name.

Field note

The logs are rainbow jasper on a dusty bench. Escalante is the town. This plate is Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, not Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona and not Grand Staircase slot country.

Escalante Petrified Forest is Morrison hills above Wide Hollow — juniper, a balanced boulder, rainbow logs. Escalante is the town. This plate is the Utah state park, not the Arizona national park.

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Prints from Escalante Petrified Forest


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