Hurricane Cliffs, northern Arizona:

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From the top of the Hurricane Cliffs in northern Arizona, near the Grandstand area. Starting view to the north to the Pine Valley Mountains of Utah over Lower Hurricane Valley, with the plateaus of Zion farther to the right. Panning left, towards the west in the far distance are the Virgin Mountains at the edge of the Colorado Plateau and beyond the Shivwits Plateau in the foreground. Farther left, just west of south, Diamond Butte is right of Twin Butte, separating Lower from Upper Hurricane Valley (where the old town of Mt. Trumbell was). Just left of those buttes is the southern part of the Hurricane Cliffs at the Grandstand, and over those cliffs is Mt. Logan (right, 7366') and Mt Trumbell (left, 8029') in the Uinkaret Mountains. Back to the east are the upturned strata of the Kaibab Formation on the west edge of the Unikaret Plateau. The Hurricane fault lies at the base of the cliffs and drops the west side down, so the bulk of the reddish rock on the Shivwits Plateau is the Triassic Moenkopi formation that overlies the Kaibab on the Unikaret Plateau to the east.

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