The Dry Gulch fault zone of Grand County, Utah about thirty miles west-southwest of Grand Junction, Colorado.

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Here at the northwest tip of the Uncompahgre Uplift in extreme eastern Utah, we see the sandstones of the Wingate Formation, which forms the spectacular cliffs of the Colorado National Monument a few miles east of here, worn down to only a few dozen feet in thickness. Below it lies the deeply colored brick-red Chinle Formation. Below that, with over a billion years' worth of rock missing, is the dark grey to old Proterozoic basement rock that underlies the entire state of Colorado. This is in the Dry Gulch fault zone in Grand County, Utah.

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Location: Dry Gulch Road, Grand County, Utah, USA
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Keywords: chinle, dry, fault, formation, geology, gulch, mesa, pinon, red, rock, sandstone, uncompahgre, utah, wingate