Aerial view Jurassic cliffs scree fans Cathedral Butte, rising above Navajo Sandstone Little Arch Canyon, Lake Powell, Utah

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The Permian and Triassic strata forming the mesas and buttes of Monument Valley dip below later Jurassic beds, forming the mesas to the west around Navajo Mountain. Here Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone passes under Middle and Upper Jurassic Rocks on the slopes of Navajo Mountain.

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