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Desert Maritime

Geology

Faults, formations, and events that shaped the rivers, canyons, and mountains.

Features

Faults, anticlines, monoclines, arches, and other discrete physical features.

Formations

Named rock units that crop out across the corridor — sandstones, limestones, shales, and the stories they preserve.

Events

Temporal events — orogenies, uplifts, lake drainages, and the deep-time forces still shaping the landscape.