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» Bonanza, Utah, USA (more..)
» July 07, 2009 |
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| At the very end of a glorious summer day, a trio of Deseret Power Railway E60Cs easily handle 44 coal loads amongst the curiously-shaped and -colored formations in Coyote Basin of northeastern Utah. The colorful "dunes" are actually mudstones and shales, both being types of rock which weather easily and form such fantastic shapes as they erode. The sediments comprising those strata were deposited during the upper Eocene Epoch -- some 35 million years ago -- on the bottom of historic Lake Uinta, whose unique chemistry was responsible for vast deposits of valuable natural resources in this otherwise-barren corner of the state. (My thanks to Dick Ebright for sharing his knowledge of the area's geology.) |
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