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Canyon de Chelly - Defiance Uplift

Detailed Description

Canyon de Chelly with the gently west-dipping strata of the Defiance Uplift. In the distance, strata exposed in Canyon de Chelly disappears beneath younger Cretaceous rocks of Black Mesa. The eastern escarpment of Black Mesa is in the distance in this photograph.

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