Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Re: [Geology2] Strange sandstone formation



Looks like a mold (imprint) of fossil palm or cycad bark.
Do a Google image search for fossil cycad and you'll see several pics that look similar, esp. the one at the bottom of this page:
 
 
 
Hope this helps.
 
Cheers.
 
 
Dave
 
 
 
 
 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:23 PM
Subject: [Geology2] Strange sandstone formation [1 Attachment]

 

Hello, I am a new member here. I love the outdoors and spend much of my off duty hours in it. A few days ago I was hiking on top of the White Cliffs near Orderville Utah 20 miles east of Zion Nat Park, the White Cliffs are part of the Grand Staircase Nat Monument. I found this sandstone slab with the unusual imprint on it shown in the picture I took. The slab was 3 feet wide and tall and the round dips were about 2 inches wide and very uniform as it looks.

Any idea's what formed this? In all my years hiking around this area I have never seen this before.



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