DEVILS KITCHEN, looking north from ridge in middle of No Thoroughfare Canyon. An erosional remnant of the Wingate Sandstone capped by the lowermost sandstone of the Kayenta Formation. Photograph by T. F. Giles, U.S. Geological Survey. (Fig. 57)
From the East Entrance to Grand Junction
SOUTH CAMP ROAD SHORTCUT
Three fourths of a mile beyond the checking station, South Camp Road turns left and joins South Broadway 2½ miles to the northwest. This provides a fine shortcut for persons desirous of travelling back northwestward through The Redlands to regain the West Entrance of the Monument. The intersection of South Camp Road and South Broadway, a key point on the trip “From Grand Junction through The Redlands to the West Entrance of the Monument,” is noted on [page 89].
But let us continue our 3-mile return trip to Grand Junction, in order to point out several things of interest along Monument Road in the lower part of No Thoroughfare Canyon. As the canyon narrows just beyond the road intersection, we see on both sides colorful badlands of the Morrison Formation capped by the rusty looking basal sandstones of the Burro Canyon Formation. Behind the building on the right just before the road curves to the left is an artesian well 575 feet deep that taps both the Entrada Sandstone and a sandstone lens in the Morrison Formation[40].
GAP IN ROCK RECORD
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About 2½ miles below the checking station, we pass on the left the basal sandstone of the Burro Canyon Formation resting on the Morrison Formation, as shown in the lower left of [figure 24]. Just beyond we may look up the hill to the left and see the 40-foot basal conglomerate of the Dakota Sandstone resting unconformably on an old erosion surface atop the Burro Canyon Formation.