Dutsen Pink

Dutsen ruwan hoda  jerin tsaunuka ne da aka wargaje sosai a kan Dutsen Colorado a yankin Garfield, Iron, da Kane a kudu maso yammacin Utah, Amurka . Sabanin ma’anar sunan, tsaunin ba saitin dutse guda daya ba ne, a’a haqiqa tsarin halittar kasa ne da ke bayyana kansa a cikin nau’ukan nau’ukan dutse.

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Dutsen dutsen suna samar da adadi mai yawa na musamman na dutse, yawancin su ana kiyaye su ta ko dai Bryce Canyon National Park ko Cedar Breaks National Monument . Yawancin sauran tsarin suna cikin dajin Dixie National Forest . Geologically tsaunin ruwan hoda-da launin ja mai launin Claron Formation limestones, suna kafa babban hawan babban bene (wanda ya gangara kudu zuwa Grand Canyon a Arizona ). Masanin ilimin kimiya na duniya Clarence Dutton ne ya kira sunan The Pink Cliffs, da sauran yadudduka na Grand Staircase a cikin 1870s. 

Duk da yake ba wani sabon imani ba ne cewa girman dutsen ruwan hoda yana iyakance ga yankin National Park na Bryce Canyon (kasancewar daya daga cikin wurare mafi kyau kuma mafi mashahuri don kallon tsaunin dutse),   a geographically, tsaunin a zahiri ya wuce fiye da filin shakatawa na kasa, yana samar da m, amma fadi, "U" siffar da ta shafi yankuna uku. Yankin yammacin dutsen yana gefen yammacin Markagunt Plateau (mafi yawa a cikin Cedar Breaks National Monument) a kudu maso gabashin Iron County  kuma gabas na gabas na dutsen yana gefen kudu maso gabashin Paunsaugunt Plateau a kudu maso yammacin Garfield County (mafi yawa a cikin Bryce Canyon National Park). Daga babban abin tunawa na kasa a yamma, tsaunin ya rufe kudu a kusa da gefen kudu na Markagunt Plateau (kusan iyakar Dixie National Forest ) kuma yana tafiya a kudu da tafkin Navajo a arewa maso gabashin Kane County.    Bayan da Long Valley  da kwarin Kanab Creek suka yi bisected,  tsaunin sun nannade a gefen kudu da kudu maso gabas na Paunsaugunt Plateau kuma sun mika arewa ta kuma kusa da wurin shakatawa na kasa.  

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