Mogollon Rim - Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ - Places of Geologic Significance on Waymarking.com

The Mogollon Rim is the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau. The Rim has an average elevation of 7300'. From the rim the land drops to the Tonto National Forest. The upper end of the Tonto is pine forest but it descends to include the Sonoran Desert terrain at approximately 1300'. The rim separates the flora and fauna of the region with those on the top being common to the Rocky Mountains while below the wildlife is more common to the Sierra Madre Occidental. Composed of white sandstone and limestone, the rim can have the appearance of the edge of the Grand Canyon to the north. As volcanic activity occurs in the region the land may show more basalt from lava flows than sandstone or limestone. Most importantly, for visitors from the desert, the rim is the edge of cooler temperatures.
From Wikipedia"The Mogollon Rim's limestones and sandstones were formed from sediments deposited in the Carboniferous and Permian Periods. Several of the Rim's rock formations are also seen on the walls of the Grand Canyon. In many places, the Rim is capped or even buried by the extensive basaltic lava flows.
The uppermost sandstone stratum of the Mogollon Rim, called the Coconino Sandstone, forms spectacular white cliffs, sometimes several hundred feet high. This formation of the Permian Period is of aeolian (windblown) origin and is one of the thickest sand-dune-derived sandstones on earth."

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