Mount Nebo Loop, Utah

Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, Universityof Wisconsin - Green Bay

	Left and below: Mount Nebo (11877 feet) is crowned with three wonderful cirques.





	View north along the Wasatch Front. The peak is Mt. Nebo.
	Badlands topography in alluvial fan deposits at the south end of the Mount Nebo highway.
	Left and below: views along the highway.



	East side of Mount Nebo





Above: looking southeast from near the high point of the drive	Below: looking east from near the high point of the drive


	View south.
	Left and below: views east and northeast.


	Much of the area east of the summit is made up of late Paleozoic molasse deposits, which are not very erosionally resistant. The actual summit is supported by erosionally resistant quartzites.

	Summit of Mount Nebo from the northeast.
	View south.
	View east.
	Left and below: lower Paleozoic limestones and quartzites. These resistant rocks hold up the summit of Mount Nebo. This was one of those fall days with a sky so unbelievably blue it just about broke your heart to look at it.

	Left and below: views east.

	View north to Utah Lake.
	Lower Paleozoic quartzite.





	Mount Nebo from the north.

	Left and below: view north. The Wasatch Front is in the distance with Utah Lake to the left. The foreground valley is due to an en echelon step in the Wasatch Fault. One branch runs along the mountain front to the right and dies out to the south, the other begins at the tip of the mountains on the left and runs along the western flank.


	View east.
	Molasse deposits.
	Left and below: dropping down into Payson.

Created 18 November 2005, Last Update 08 June 2020