Station 8 Green Creek Complex Window

Green Creek Complex Window 

Features produced by cavernous weathering such as tafoni (Station 3) are well developed throughout City of Rocks, often resulting in windows. This type of weathering is common in the Almo pluton, but rarely so large as here in the granite of the Green Creek Complex. Look closely at the bottom of this boulder and you will see that it is resting on the younger granite of the Almo pluton. 

NOTE: Just beyond the boulder at the highpoint of the trail, stay left for a short distance on the Geo Watt Connector Trail and visit Circle Creek Basin Overlook. Two miles south is Smoky Mountain (elevation 7,560). This mountain is capped by eastward dipping layers of Elba Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which once covered the entire area.