The Most Photographed Place in Utah About 15 kilometers west of Utah’s Bryce Canyon National P

The Most Photographed Place in UtahAbout 15 kilometers west of Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park is Red Canyon, part of the Dixie National Forest in the U.S. Red Canyon is sometimes called the “most photographed place in Utah”. The canyon is defined by red-orange sandstone and filled with green conifer trees making the area very photogenic.During the Paleozoic Era (542 million to 251 million years ago), the area was periodically a tropical inland sea, depositing limestone, sandstone, siltstone, and shale; then the sea would retreat and allow stream deposits and sand dunes to build up. The cycle continued for about 300 million years until geologic uplift pushed up the elevation enough that shallow seas could no longer form. Rivers, streams, and lakes begin to erode the deposits to create unique landforms, including hoodoos and Bryce Canyon, as previously coveredhttp://on.fb.me/1w4q7an.Red Canyon is part of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, which formed 10 to 20 million years ago from a geologic uplift of the larger Colorado Plateau. The sandstone rocks of the canyon have high concentrations of iron, which gives them their red color. Like Bryce Canyon, Red Canyon also has hoodoos and other similar rock features which add to the photographic appeal of the area.REPhoto credit: Xanthi Merlohttp://rectrix.net/photography-portfolio/Read More:http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/dixie/specialplaces/recarea/?recid=24942&actid=120http://www.brycecanyoncountry.com/paunsaugunt-plateau/http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/province/coloplat.html -- source link

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