Utah colorful Geology part 2

We visit a second road cut along the Toquerville by-pass construction, a 400m exposure of the late cretaceous deposits in the Virgin anticline, with some impressive angular unconformities, and again some colorful rock sequences. These rock exposures have been covered up as part of the right of way, and this video is the only way to enjoy them now!
Utah colorful geology part 1: • Colorful Utah Geology
Virgin anticline: • The Virgin Anticline, ...

[@StereoSpace]

Very interesting. Thanks!

[@laughingoutloud5742]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@ThomasEckhardt]

You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it!

[@laughingoutloud5742]

@@ThomasEckhardt Merry Christmas and Happy 2024!

[@StereoSpace]

Watching this video again and thinking about the limestone in the deeper strata, I recall reading that in the Paleozoic and into the Mesozoic, the west coast of North America followed a diagonal from Western Utah, bisecting Nevada, and down to southern California. Just west of that was a long sloping limestone shelf, the 'miogeocline', gradually descending into deeper water. The limestone we're seeing around the 6:20 mark may be a remnant of that.