![]() ![]() ![]() I think the rock formations at Fantasy are even more intricate and beautiful. Some of the sandstone was harder than the surrounding rock, which weathered at various rates and produced the squiggly formations of Fantasy Canyon.įantasy Canyon is often compared to Goblin Valley, though the area is more compact and the rock at Fantasy is badlands gray rather than the warm orange of southern Utah. ![]() That's about how long ago sandstone, siltstone and shale began to form at the shore of the ancient Lake Uinta, according to geologists with the U.S. Ghoulish formations of sandstone are caught in writhing poses like still frames from a 50 million-year-old reel of film. It is … well, an extremely pretty thing in a natural gas field. Fantasy Canyon is not quite literally a diamond in a coal mine.
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