Outcrop Cover Images Click on a photo for a larger image, and 'back' in your browser to return to this page.
Front cover photo: White House ruin, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, by Carl Bowser.
"Perhaps the best known of the ancient Anasazi ruins in the American southwest, it is admired by geologists, archeologists, naturalists, tourists, and, of course, photographers. The sweeping lines of iron/manganese stains on the sandstone walls, the well preserved ruins of Native American dwellers who abandoned the site approximately 700 years ago, and the numerous rock carvings provide a dramatic setting in this spectacular canyon. The cliff is comprised of De Chelly formation sandstone of Permian age."
Back cover: the Department of Geology and Geophysics, fall 1999.
