Vermillion Cliffs and Paria Plateau, Arizona
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- Ken Lund
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- 2014-05-16 07:25:28
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Arizona, USA
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- The Vermilion Cliffs are the second "step" up in the five-step Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau, in northern Arizona and southern Utah. They extend west from near Page, Arizona, for a considerable distance, in both Arizona and Utah.. 112,500 acres (45,500 ha) of the region were designated as the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in 1984. An even greater area was protected within Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in 2000. The Vermilion Cliffs are made up of deposited silt and desert dunes, cemented by infiltrated carbonates and intensely colored by red iron oxide and other minerals, particularly bluish manganese. They are in the physiographic High Plateaus Section and Canyon Lands Section of the Colorado Plateau Province. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermillion_Cliffs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
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