Life in Stone: Fossils of the Colorado Plateau Birding Detailed Turn-by-Turn Mileage Log

Detailed Turn-by-Turn Mileage Log

but reddish-brown Jurassic strata in the middle of the section create the Vermillion Cliffs that dominate the area

with several additional salt structures present

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Life in Stone: Fossils of the Colorado Plateau Birding Detailed Turn-by-Turn Mileage LogBy: Christa Sadler Spanning the Four Corners area of the American Southwest, the Colorado Plateau is a remarkable landscape of impressive peaks, high plateaus, and deeply carved canyons. Locked in its colorful rock layers are the fossil remains of organisms that lived here millions of years ago. These rocks and their fossils tell stories of swamps and oceans, great slow moving rivers and wind blown sand dunes, tidal flats and tropical seas all of