Images Of Red Rock Canyon State Park

Kern County, California

A view from a moving vehicle while traveling southbound along Highway 14 through Red Rock Canyon State Park, California; the strata belong to the late Miocene Dove Spring Formation of the Ricardo Group. Reddish layers are channel sandstones deposited in rivers and streams; whitish rocks are tuffaceous sandstones; greenish-gray beds are sandstones that were deposited along great floodplains of the Miocene, roughly 10 million years ago.

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