Coyote Buttes

Short description: Rock formation in Coconino County, Arizona, US

The Magic Crest of South Coyote Buttes.

Coyote Buttes is a section of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), spanning extreme south-central Utah and north-central Arizona, south of US 89 halfway between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. It is divided into two areas: Coyote Buttes North and Coyote Buttes South. Visiting either of the Coyote Buttes areas requires purchasing a hiking permit.

The Coyote Buttes area is an exposure of cross-bedded aeolian Jurassic Navajo Sandstone.[1] The variable coloration of the sandstones is a result of various iron oxide pigments within the layers. A dinosaur trackway or trample surface is found in the area and provides evidence of a variety of dinosaurs.[1] The area includes dramatic swirling erosional rock formations such as The Wave.

The Wave and Buckskin Gulch share the Wire Pass Trailhead on House Rock Valley Road.

## Contents

* 1 Dinosaur trackway
* 2 Gallery
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Dinosaur trackway

The dinosaur trackway within the area is a site of 0.75 acres (3,000 m2) that has densely packed dinosaur footprints within the area. The trackway contains more than 1,000 footprints which were made approximately 190 million years ago.[2] Tracks of three genera of Eubrontes, Anchisauripus and Grallator are present along with a Sauropodomorph that has not been identified.[1]

## Gallery

* Coyote Buttes

* Coyote Buttes

* The Wave

* Looking north past the teepees, in Coyote Buttes South

Panorama, Brain Rock Garden, Coyote Buttes

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Seiler, W. M. (2008), Jurassic Navajo sandstone of Coyote Buttes, Utah/Arizona: coloration and diagenetic history, preservation of a dinosaur trample surface, and terrestrial analogs to Mars (MS Thesis), The University of Utah, http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd2/id/683
2. ↑ "Scientists Discover 'Dinosaur Dance Floor'". The Washington Post: p. KidsPost. October 22, 2008. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/21/AR2008102102273.html.

## External links

* "Coyote Buttes". United States Geological Survey. https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:3474.
* "Bureau of Land Management website". Archived from the original on 2012-04-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20120413123105/http://www.blm.gov/az/st/en/arolrsmain/paria/coyote_buttes/permits.html. , with information on hiking permits
* "The Wave (Coyote Buttes)". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/151744.

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