from space showing the incised meanders at Gooseneck State Park in southern Utah (click on image to enlarge.) The San Juan River has maintained its course as the Colorado Plateau was uplifted, thereby causing the entrenchment into the underlying sedimentary rocks. This is, by the way, the type locality of the Honaker Trail Formation, a 350 m thick section of cyclic carbonates of Pennsylvanian age.Image credit: Ikonos image, taken on May 9, 2004. Note: south is towards the top of the image.
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