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Canyonlands National Park Seedling in Biological Soil Crust
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Canyonlands National Park
Cutler Undivided
photo: Fisher Towers
Fisher Towers near Moab, Utah
 

Deposited
Permian Period (245 to 286 million years ago)

Depositional Environment
Alluvial fans and rivers from the ancient Uncompaghre Mountains (also called the ancestral Rockies)

Appearance
Irregular layer of dark red, lumpy sandstones, mudstones and conglomerates.

Note
The Cutler Undivided begins west of the Uncompaghre Plateau along the Utah-Colorado border. Differentiated elements of the Cutler Group begin to appear along the eastern boundary of Canyonlands National Park.

Examples
Fisher Towers along Highway 128 (northeast of Moab).

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