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Monday March 3, 2008

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View of the Hamburger Rocks in the Halls Creek valley in Utah's Southern Capitol Reef National Park. A red layer of silty sandstone in the upper Navajo Sandstone (probably stream floodplain deposits) stands out in contrast to the white sandstone (dune sand deposits) that makes up most of the formation.

Credit: USGS 

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