Utah’s Red Rock Country

Utah’s Red Rock Country

Utah’s Red Rock Country – Of all the common colorful minerals found in Earth’s crust, few are as abundant, dynamic, and multi-colored as iron. Depending on how it combines with other elements, iron can form a veritable rainbow of colors. When iron combines with oxygen it becomes iron oxide, and its degree of oxidation largely determines its color. 

Hence the multi colors found at Zion National Park, we only drove the scenic route at Zion, but if we ever get back there one must take the hiking route into the canyon where you will find pools of emerald colored water and lush garden plants. Amazing the world we live on.

Utah's Red Rock Country
Utah's Red Rock Country

Utah’s Red Rock Country

Sandra J


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25 Replies to “Utah’s Red Rock Country”

  1. The color of these rocks is amazing. My boss took a family trip about 5-6 years ago and went whitewater rafting in Moab, Utah. I remember seeing his pictures from there taken from the raft with all the red rocks – gorgeous.

  2. Great beauty captured Sandra. Don’t try to use a compass with all the iron in the rocks…I learned that the hard way in the wilderness north of the iron range area of Minnesota. One might as well draw an arrow on a finger and point because that’s what the compass does with iron all around.

  3. 😎 cool Pix. I heard some of the canyon lands have been getting flooded by freek rains❗️
    I skied and lived in Park City, UT for 12 yrs & never made it to any of Utah’s beautiful National Parks…. Thanks for sharing 🙂

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