Captions for Day 7: Capitol Reef National Park and vicinity.

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Photo 1: At the pullout just before the Park entrance, between mileposts 89 and 90 you can see possible Saurapod tracks (a trample bed) on the north side of the Fremont River (across the river from the road). The trample bed is located in floodplain deposits just below the resistant sandstone at the top of the photo. Both the floodplain and the sandstone are part of the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation.

Photo 2: Navajo Sandstone makes up the Capitol Dome in Capitol Reef National Park. Here it is as seen from the Hickman Bridge Trail.
Photo 3: Basalt boulders along Fremont terraces derived from the Aquarius Plateau. These are Tertiary (?). They are remnants of the old Fremont channel.
Photo 4: Navajo Sandstone with joints with Entrada Sandstone at the top. The Navajo Sandstone here has its typical rounded appearance.
Photo 5: Hickman Bridge in Capitol Reef National Park. As viewed from the west.
Photo 6: Hickman Bridge in Capitol Reef National Park.
Photo 7: Hickman Wash in Capitol Reef National Park.
Photo 8: Mud lenses and rip up clasts that are now weathered out and outline cross bedding near Hickman Bridge parking lot. These features are in the Jurassic Kayenta Formation.
Photo 9: Mud rip up clast in the Jurassic Kayenta Formation.
Photo 10: Petrified wood in the Triassic Chinle Formation.
Photo 11: Outcrop of the Chinle Formation along the north side of the road in Capitol Reef National Park.
Photo 12: Tracks in the Triassic Moenkopi (Moody Canyon or Torrey Member). This fallen slab is near the pullout on the south side of the road just west of the Chimney Rock parking lot. Hike towards the south to the wash and at the outcrop on the east side of the wash look at the fallen slabs.
Photo 13: Plant fossils along the base of a bed in a fallen block at the same site as described in previous caption.
Photo 14: Fossil in block near cabin at Visitor's center.
Photo 15: Grand Wash from pullout to the hiking trail on the east side of the road. In the photo the Triassic Moenkopi is at approximately road level, it is overlain by the Shinarump Conglomerate, the rest of the Triassic Chinle Formation, and the Jurassic Wingate Formation (the cliff former at the top of the photo).
Photo 16: View from Goosenecks Point. The Permian White Rim Sandstone is exposed at the base of the cliff and it is overlain by the Permian Kaibab Limestone. The Kaibab is unconformably overlain by the Black Dragon (lower), Sinbad (gold color), and Torrey Members of the Triassic Moenkopi Formation.
Photo 17: Looking east from Sunset Point. Stratigraphy as described in the above caption. This site is located just west of the Waterpocket fold that marks the western boundary between the desert and the high plateaus of the Colorado Plateau physiographic provinc e. This is a good area to use the surrounding geomorphic features to interpret the time of uplift of the Colorado Plateau and incision of the streams that cut through it.
Photo 18: A slightly zoomed-in version of the photo described above.
Photo 19: Permian Kaibab Limestone in Suphur Creek Canyon.
Photo 20: Permian Kaibab Limstone in Sulphur Creek Canyon from Sulphur Creek. Note the bent strands of grass that provide evidence of flash floods.
Photo 21: Evidence of flash floods along Sulphur Creek.
Photo 22: Coyote footprint along Sulphur Creek floodplain.