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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Geology Unit 2
Student Activity
II. Locate the state of Utah on each map and find the area that would be the Monument.
Outline of the State of Utah
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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
III. For each geologic period:
A. Analyze the Monument’s geographic location and form a hypothesis about the type
of environment that existed.
B. Check your hypothesis by reading about the rock layer(s) from earlier in this activity.
Question 1
In the space below each geologic period write a brief synopsis of the environment that existed
and list the rock layer(s) formed.
a) Middle Permian ~ 275 mya http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namP275.jpg
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b) Early Triassic ~ 245 mya http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namTr245.jpg
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c) Late Triassic ~ 210 mya http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namTr210.jpg
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d) Early Jurassic ~ 195 mya http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namJ195.jpg
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e) Middle Jurassic ~ 170 mya http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/namJ170.jpg
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