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The Loop

A double oxbow etched into the Colorado Plateau in Canyonlands National Park likely got its shape from an ancestral river.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published June 18, 2014
Data acquired May 13, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
U.S. National Parks