Early Morning Mancos

by Jon Burch Photography

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Early Morning Mancos

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Jon Burch Photography

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Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement

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There I was camping out on the moon... Whoops, wrong dream again. This isn't the Moon at all, it's only Colorful Colorado!

This is exposed Mancos shale on the Colorado Plateau in western Colorado. Mancos Shale is an upper Cretaceous geologic formation of the Western United States dominated by mudrock that accumulated in offshore and marine environments of the Cretaceous North American Inland Sea. The Mancos was deposited during the Cenomanian through Campanian ages, approximately from 95 to 80 Million years ago.

The Colorado Plateau has the greatest concentration of U.S. National Park Service units in the country. Among its ten National Parks are Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, Arches, Mesa Verde, and Petrified Forest. Among its 17 National Monuments are Dinosaur, Hovenweep, Wupatki, Sunset Crater Volcano, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Natural Bridges, Canyons of the Ancients, and western Colorado itself.

This image was made along I-70 near Palisade, Colorado about 8:30 one hot July morning. The massive behind the rising sun is Mt. Garfield.

Image copyright 2018 Jon Burch Photography

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August 31st, 2018

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