"The rough-hewn expanse of rocks [in Canyonlands National Park's Island in the Sky area], dusty red as though fired in a kiln, dates mostly from the Mesozoic Era, the time of the dinosaurs, when deserts and tidal plains took turns spreading over this region."
—Text from the National Geographic book America's Majestic Canyons, 1979
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Utah: Land of Promise, Kingdom of Stone," January 1996, National Geographic magazine)
