        National Geographic Photo of the Day: Island in the Sky

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Canyonlands National Park, Utah

1993

James P. Blair

"The rough-hewn expanse of rocks [in Canyonlands National Park&#039s
Island in the Sky area], dusty red as though fired in a kiln, dates
mostly from the Mesozoic Era, the time of the dinosaurs, when deserts
and tidal plains took turns spreading over this region."

Text from the National Geographic book America&#039s Majestic Canyons,
1979

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land
of Promise, Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic
magazine)

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