Abstract
ABSTRACTIn Canyonlands National Park, south‐east Utah, at least 29 partly exhumed, aligned sandstone ridges trending generally N20°W occur at the upper unconformable surface of the Lower Permian (Leonardian) White Rim Sandstone. The ridges are at least 1·5 km long, 250 m wide and have up to 14 m of vertical relief (mean of 9 m). A thin lag of coarse sandstone that contains wind‐ripple laminae and granule ripples directly overlies the ridges. Angular blocks of sandstone within the lag and sand‐filled fissures immediately below the lag, within the ridges, attest to early cementation of the ridge‐forming material. SE‐dipping aeolian cross‐strata within the White Rim Sandstone and within the lag closely parallel the ridge trend. The ridges are interpreted as wind‐sculpted desert landforms (yardangs) that developed on the lithified upper surface of the White Rim Sandstone during an extended period of hyperaridity towards the end of the Permian.
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