Vermillion Cliffs Aerial
« Back to Public Land - The BLM-The Big Open, August 2001 National Geographic Magazine
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Sandstone-capped escarpment of the Vermilion Cliffs tumbles 3,000 feet to the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Vast scale makes the Colorado River's down-cutting appear as a series of narrow, winding incisions near Marble Canyon. The remote 293,000 acre monument features a majestic grand terrace rising at the edge of the desert of the Paria Plateau.
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