Castleton Tower

3D Model

A 120m Wingate Sandstone tower located 10 miles northeast of Moab, Utah, perched on a 350m-tall cone composed of Moenkopi and Chinle Formations. The tower is world-famous amongst rock climbers, with several visible half-way up a route in the model above.

Check out our paper “Dynamic Analysis of a Large Freestanding Rock Tower (Castleton Tower, Utah)” published in August 2019 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article/109/5/2125/573274/Dynamic-Analysis-of-a-Large-Freestanding-Rock