Panorama of Sandstone Bluffs during the winter.

Sandstone Bluffs are part of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation west of Las Vegas Nevada. The great sandstone cliffs at Red Rock, thousands of feet high, are made up of the Aztec Sandstone. This formation, about 180 Ã¢â¬â 190 millions years old, is comprised of lithified sand dunes that formed in a vast desert that covered a large part of the southwestern United States during the Jurassic time.

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