That shows the northwestern section of the Colorado Plateau, including parts of the so-called Canyonlands. Most of the upper scene lies in Utah but the lowermost areas fall within northern Arizona. The San Juan River joins the Colorado from the east. The brown tones associate with rocks that are dark reds and browns in the field. Some fields are tinged with reds in the image because vegetation in this IR version.
Blues associate with shales that in the field are often grayish.
The northernmost end of the forested Black Mesa appears along bottom center. The cluster of isolated mountains to its north are the collection of mesas and buttes, known as the Hopi Buttes district. Instead of being made from sedimentary rocks, as occurs in Monument Valley to the north, these are actually eroded volcanic necks and diatreme fills. At the top is a line which represents a profile of the ground surface. At A, a rock unit labeled X lies just beneath the surface, but at B it has dipped downward such that it is now well below the ground.