Vernal to Moab, UT - 200 miles
This trip goes from one Utah town to another via Colorado. I think it's because the Wasatch Range is aligned East-West rather than North-South like every other mountain range in America. Anyway this ride should be mandatory for any geology grad student. In fact, doctoral candidates should not be considered until they motorcycle from Deadhorse, AK to Moab. We have witnessed, up close and personal, every conceivable rock formation from the last 65 million years.
For example we seen each of the following:
alluvium, basins, cataclastic rock, chert, detrital sediment, fissures, geysers, hogbacks, isotropes, kettle, laccoliths, lava tubes, mass movement, obsidian, pediment, quartzite, recumbant folds, schist, talas, ultramafic rock, valley glaciers, wadis, xenoliths, and zeolite. The whole geology alphabet!
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