Photo of Diagenetic Coloration in Sandstone, North Coyote Buttes, Phillip Colla Photography

Photo of Diagenetic Coloration in Sandstone, North Coyote Buttes

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Latitude: 36° 59' 31.26" N, Longitude: 112° 0' 32.01" W, Coord: 36.992017°, -112.00889°
Filed under: Arizona, Photo of the Day, The Wave on 4/24/2008

Not far from the Second Wave is a broad swatch of sandstone displaying exellent examples of diagenetic coloration, various iron oxides producing different colors in the Navaho sandstone strata, dating from the Jurassic era:

Striations in sandstone tell of eons of sedimentary deposits, a visible geologic record of the time when this region was under the sea., Copyright Phillip Colla, image #20612, all rights reserved worldwide.
Striations in sandstone tell of eons of sedimentary deposits, a visible geologic record of the time when this region was under the sea. North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA.
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Location: North Coyote Buttes, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona, USA
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