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The Spring Canyon sandstones in the Book Cliffs above Helper, Utah, with several sedimentary cycles visible in the cliffsBook Cliffs and Mt. Garfield (on right, approximate altitude 6,600 ft or 2,000 m) in Mesa County, ColoradoThe Book Cliffs near Green River, Utah, ca. 1879–1894. Photographs of the American West, Boston Public LibraryThe Book Cliff in Helper, Utah
The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States.[1] They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone capping many of the south-facing buttes appear similar to a shelf of books.[2][1]
^ abU.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Book Cliffs
^Van Atta, Dale (Jan 22, 1977). "You name it - there's a town for it". The Deseret News. p. 15. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via Google News.
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turn rest on a Cretaceous layer known as the Mesaverde Group that forms a cliff about halfway up the side of the mesa. The lowest layers are yellow and...
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