Book Cliffs

The Spring Canyon sandstones in the Book Cliffs above Helper, Utah, with several sedimentary cycles visible in the cliffs
Book Cliffs and Mt. Garfield (on right, approximate altitude 6,600 ft or 2,000 m) in Mesa County, Colorado
The Book Cliffs near Green River, Utah, ca. 1879–1894. Photographs of the American West, Boston Public Library
The Book Cliff in Helper, Utah

The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States.[1] They are so named because the cliffs of Cretaceous sandstone capping many of the south-facing buttes appear similar to a shelf of books.[2][1]

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Book Cliffs
  2. ^ Van Atta, Dale (Jan 22, 1977). "You name it - there's a town for it". The Deseret News. p. 15. Retrieved 18 October 2015 – via Google News.