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  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2236-37pan_Lower-Antelope-Cany...jpg
  • Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Utah, USA. The Wingate sandstone cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon are covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings), one of the largest, best preserved and accessible groups in the Southwest USA. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human (feet, figures), animal (deer, pronghorn, horse), material and abstract forms of uncertain meaning. Starting about 2000 years ago, humans have chipped away the dark natural desert varnish to reveal lighter colored sandstone beneath.
    06UT_3084-Newspaper_Rock.jpg
  • Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Utah, USA. The cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon are covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings), one of the largest, best preserved and accessible groups in the Southwest USA. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human (feet, figures), animal (deer, pronghorn, buffalo, horse), abstract and material forms of uncertain meaning. Starting about 2000 years ago, humans have chipped away the dark natural desert varnish to reveal lighter colored Wingate sandstone beneath.
    06UT_3083-Newspaper_Rock.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ3C-5071_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ3C-5042_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    11AZ1-2308-09pan_Lower-Antelope-Cany...jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2303_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2262_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2245_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2240_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    11AZ1-2233-34pan_Lower-Antelope-Cany...jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2205_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2202_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2161_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2055_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Utah, USA. The cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon are covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings), one of the largest, best preserved and accessible groups in the Southwest USA. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human (feet, figures), animal (deer, pronghorn, buffalo, horse), abstract and material forms of uncertain meaning. Starting about 2000 years ago, humans have chipped away the dark natural desert varnish to reveal lighter colored Wingate sandstone beneath.
    06UT_3095-Newspaper_Rock.jpg
  • Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, Utah, USA. The cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon are covered by hundreds of ancient Indian petroglyphs (rock carvings), one of the largest, best preserved and accessible groups in the Southwest USA. The petroglyphs have a mixture of human (feet, figures), animal (deer, pronghorn, buffalo, horse), abstract and material forms of uncertain meaning. Starting about 2000 years ago, humans have chipped away the dark natural desert varnish to reveal lighter colored Wingate sandstone beneath.
    06UT_3085-Newspaper_Rock.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon (or "the Corkscrew") is a beautiful slot canyon in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. Flash floods and other erosion have carved Navajo Sandstone into this natural rock cathedral.
    11AZ1-2190_Lower-Antelope-Canyon.jpg
  • The "Fire Wave" is a one mile round trip walk in the White Domes area of Valley of Fire State Park, the oldest state park in Nevada (dedicated in 1935). Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
    11NV1-1129_Valley-of-Fire-SP-Nevada.jpg
  • Regimental "hoodoos" are eroded pinnacles of soft rock in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA. Published in Nature, the International Weekly Journal of Science, 17 January 2008 on the cover of the enclosed supplement "Year of Planet Earth," pages 257-304.
    94SW-09-29_Hoodoos_Bryce-Canyon.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6150-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunset spotlights the Queen's Garden, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. The hoodoo on the left looks like a standing profile of Queen Elizabeth with gown. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6096-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6006-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Sandstone pinnacles catch sunset light in Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2269_Arches-NP-Utah.jpg
  • From Orange Cliffs Overlook in Canyonlands National Park (Utah, USA), view the Green River in Stillwater Canyon, with the snowy Henry Mountains in the distance. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    06UT_2203-2204pan_Orange-Cliffs-Over...jpg
  • Flash floods have eroded a slot of Navajo sandstone into a natural cathedral at Lower Antelope Canyon, in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. (The older spelling "Navaho" is no longer used by the Navajo, an American Indian group who call themselves Diné, or Dineh, "The People.")
    06AZ_4183-Lower_Antelope_Canyon.jpg
  • Flash floods have eroded a slot of Navajo sandstone into a natural cathedral at Lower Antelope Canyon, in Antelope Canyon Navajo Tribal Park, near Page, Arizona, USA. (The older spelling "Navaho" is no longer used by the Navajo, an American Indian group who call themselves Diné, or Dineh, "The People.")
    06AZ_4143-Lower_Antelope_Canyon.jpg
  • A hiker admires hoodoos at Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, USA. The Heart of the Rocks Loop Trail (7 to 9 miles) makes an excellent day hike through fascinating arrays of hoodoos. 27 million years ago, huge volcanic eruptions laid down 2000 feet of ash and pumice which fused into rhyolitic tuff. This rock has eroded into fascinating hoodoos, spires, and balanced rocks which lie above the surrounding desert grasslands at elevations between 5100 and 7800 feet. At Chiricahua, the Sonoran desert meets the Chihuahuan desert, and the Rocky Mountains meet Mexico's Sierra Madre, making one of the most biologically diverse areas in the northern hemisphere. While we drove the dirt road to nearby Portal, Arizona, Carol saw a mountain lion crossing the road! Other animals here include javelina, coatimundi, bears, skunks, and deer. For licensing options, please inquire.
    03AZ-12-01_Chiricahua-NM.jpg
  • Banded pink and yellow sandstone in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA. Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
    99NV-03-37_pink-yellow-sandstone_Val...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-03-01_Eroded-mud-columns-Cathed...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-36_Eroded-mud-columns-Cathed...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-35_Eroded-mud-columns-Cathed...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-26_Eroded-mud-columns-Cathed...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-11_Eroded-mud-slot-Cathedral...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-09_Eroded-mud-columns-Cathed...jpg
  • Million-year-old lake sediments have eroded into fantastic mud castles at Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, USA. Camping overnight for sunrise and sunset will create good photo opportunities.
    99NV-01-06_Eroded-mud-Cathedral-Gorg...jpg
  • The "Fire Wave" is a one mile round trip walk in the White Domes area of Valley of Fire State Park, the oldest state park in Nevada (dedicated in 1935). Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation. (Panorama stitched from 8 photos.)
    11NV1-1191-1198pan_Fire-Wave_Valley-...jpg
  • The "Fire Wave" is a one mile round trip walk in the White Domes area of Valley of Fire State Park, the oldest state park in Nevada (dedicated in 1935). Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
    11NV1-1168_Valley-of-Fire-SP-Nevada.jpg
  • The "Fire Wave" is a one mile round trip walk in the White Domes area of Valley of Fire State Park, the oldest state park in Nevada (dedicated in 1935). Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
    11NV1-1167_Valley-of-Fire-SP-Nevada.jpg
  • The "Fire Wave" is a one mile round trip walk in the White Domes area of Valley of Fire State Park, the oldest state park in Nevada (dedicated in 1935). Starting more than 150 million years ago, great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs were compressed, uplifting, faulted, and eroded to form the park's fiery red sandstone formations. The park also boasts fascinating patterns in limestone, shale, and conglomerate rock. The park adjoins Lake Mead National Recreation Area at the Virgin River confluence, at an elevation of 2000 to 2600 feet (610-790 m), 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Las Vegas, USA. Park entry from Interstate 15 passes through the Moapa Indian Reservation.
    11NV1-1097_Valley-of-Fire-SP-Nevada-...jpg
  • Orange, yellow and white sandstone rock erodes in a twisted pattern in Zion National Park, Utah, USA.
    99UT-21-30_Sandstone-waves_Zion-NP.jpg
  • Striped orange, yellow and pink sandstone rock pattern in Zion National Park, Utah, USA.
    99UT-21-20_Orange-white-sandstone-la...jpg
  • A chock stone is wedged in Bull Valley Gorge in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA.
    90UT-15-25-Bull-Valley-Gorge.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white sediment in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7053-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7042-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    06UT_7034-7035pan_Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7022-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes Thor's Hammer and other orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7012-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes Thor's Hammer and other orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7004-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_7000-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6165-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6149-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6147-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6145-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6137-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunrise orange light silhouettes a bare tree in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA
    06UT_6129-Bryce-NP-Sunrise.jpg
  • Sunset light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    06UT_6110-6111pan_Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Sunset light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6109-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Sunset light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6108-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Sunset spotlights the Queen's Garden, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. The hoodoo on the left looks like a standing profile of Queen Elizabeth with gown. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    06UT_6106-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Sunset light strikes orange and white hoodoos in Bryce National Park, Utah, USA. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6098-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Sunset spotlights the Queen's Garden, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. The hoodoo on the left looks like a standing profile of Queen Elizabeth with gown. Bryce is actually not a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The ancient river and lake bed sedimentary rocks erode into hoodoos by the force of wind, water, and ice.
    06UT_6091-Bryce-NP-Sunset.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6078-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6075-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6074-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6072-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6071-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6035-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek has sculpted and scalloped a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA.
    06UT_6027-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Willis Creek is a fascinating slot canyon in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA
    06UT_6024-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • A hiker crosses Willis Creek beneath an eroded  sandstone pinnacle in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, near Cannonville, Utah, USA For licensing options, please inquire.
    06UT_6023-Willis_Creek.jpg
  • Goosenecks State Park overlooks a deep meander of the San Juan River near Mexican Hat, Utah, USA. Millions of years ago, the Monument Upwarp forced the river to carve meanders over 1,000 feet deep (300 m) as the surrounding landscape slowly rose in elevation. (Panorama stitched from 10 photos.)
    06UT_3111-3120pan_Goosenecks_SP.jpg
  • Double Arch erodes from Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010. A thick underground salt bed underlies the creation of the park's many arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths. Some 300 million years ago, a sea flowed into the area and eventually evaporated to create the salt bed up to thousands of feet thick. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 million years ago) desert conditions deposited the vast Navajo Sandstone. On top of that, about 140 million years ago, the Entrada Sandstone was deposited from stream and windblown sediments. Later, over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and then mostly worn away, leaving the park's arches eroded mostly within the Entrada formation.
    06UT_3078-Double_Arch.jpg
  • Double Arch erodes from Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah. A thick underground salt bed underlies the creation of the park's many arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths. Some 300 million years ago, a sea flowed into the area and eventually evaporated to create the salt bed up to thousands of feet thick. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 million years ago) desert conditions deposited the vast Navajo Sandstone. On top of that, about 140 million years ago, the Entrada Sandstone was deposited from stream and windblown sediments. Later, over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and then mostly worn away, leaving the park's arches eroded mostly within the Entrada formation.
    06UT_3075-Double_Arch.jpg
  • Double Arch erodes from Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah. A thick underground salt bed underlies the creation of the park's many arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths. Some 300 million years ago, a sea flowed into the area and eventually evaporated to create the salt bed up to thousands of feet thick. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 million years ago) desert conditions deposited the vast Navajo Sandstone. On top of that, about 140 million years ago, the Entrada Sandstone was deposited from stream and windblown sediments. Later, over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and then mostly worn away, leaving the park's arches eroded mostly within the Entrada formation.
    06UT_3070-Double_Arch.jpg
  • Double Arch erodes from Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah. A thick underground salt bed underlies the creation of the park's many arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths. Some 300 million years ago, a sea flowed into the area and eventually evaporated to create the salt bed up to thousands of feet thick. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 million years ago) desert conditions deposited the vast Navajo Sandstone. On top of that, about 140 million years ago, the Entrada Sandstone was deposited from stream and windblown sediments. Later, over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and then mostly worn away, leaving the park's arches eroded mostly within the Entrada formation.
    06UT_3068-Double_Arch.jpg
  • Double Arch erodes from Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah. A thick underground salt bed underlies the creation of the park's many arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths. Some 300 million years ago, a sea flowed into the area and eventually evaporated to create the salt bed up to thousands of feet thick. Over millions of years, the salt bed was covered with debris eroded from the Uncompahgre Uplift to the northeast. During the Early Jurassic (about 210 million years ago) desert conditions deposited the vast Navajo Sandstone. On top of that, about 140 million years ago, the Entrada Sandstone was deposited from stream and windblown sediments. Later, over 5000 feet (1500 m) of younger sediments were deposited and then mostly worn away, leaving the park's arches eroded mostly within the Entrada formation.
    06UT_3064-Double_Arch.jpg
  • South and North Windows are comprised of the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone on top of the red-brown. or chocolate-brown marker beds of the Dewey .Bridge member, in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. These rock monuments are beautiful both at sunrise (seen here) and sunset.
    06UT_3017-South+North-Windows.jpg
  • Turret Arch is comprised of the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone on top of the red-brown. or chocolate-brown marker beds of the Dewey .Bridge member, in Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_3013-Turret-Arch.jpg
  • Turret Arch is comprised of the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone on top of the red-brown. or chocolate-brown marker beds of the Dewey .Bridge member, in Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_3011-Turret-Arch.jpg
  • The Three Gossips erode from the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. These rock monuments are beautiful both at sunrise (seen here) and sunset.
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  • The orange sandstone Courthouse Towers resist erosion in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. These rock monuments are beautiful both at sunrise (seen here) and sunset. A Volkswagon Eurovan Camper parks at a pullout. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • The orange sandstone Courthouse Towers resist erosion in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. These rock monuments are beautiful both at sunrise (seen here) and sunset. The Courthouse Towers are comprised of the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone above the red-brown. or chocolate-brown marker beds of the Dewey .Bridge member.
    06UT_3004-Courthouse-Towers.jpg
  • The orange sandstone Courthouse Towers resist erosion in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. These rock monuments are beautiful both at sunrise (seen here) and sunset. At left are the Three Gossips. The Courthouse Towers are comprised of the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone above the red-brown. or chocolate-brown marker beds of the Dewey .Bridge member. (Panorama stitched from 3 photos.)
    06UT_2287-2289pan_Courthouse-Towers.jpg
  • Skyline Arch eroded within the Slick Rock member of Entrada Sandstone in Arches National Park, Utah, USA
    06UT_2266-Skyline-Arch.jpg
  • Sunset light glows orange on roadside sandstone mesas, buttes, and pinnacles of the Windows Section of Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2256_Arches-NP-Utah.jpg
  • Sunset light glows orange on roadside sandstone mesas, buttes, and pinnacles of the Windows Section of Arches National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2251_Arches-NP-Utah.jpg
  • The La Sal Mountains rise behind arches, buttes, and pinnacles of the Windows Section of Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The park road curves through fascinating sandstone scenes.
    06UT_2228_Arches-NP-Utah.jpg
  • The La Sal Mountains rise behind arches, buttes, and pinnacles of the Windows Section of Arches National Park, Utah, USA. (Panorama stitched from 5 photos.)
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  • Intrepid Potash Inc. mines potash with a water dissolution and evaporation process at Cane Creek Facility, near Moab, Utah, USA. (Photo taken from a viewpoint on Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA.) Water from the nearby Colorado River is pumped through injection wells into the underground mine. The water dissolves the potash from layers buried 3,000 feet underground. The mineral-laden water (brine) is piped to 400 acres of shallow ponds where the water evaporates, aided by 300 days of sunshine and very low humidity, leaving potash (potassium chloride) and salt (sodium chloride) crystals. A blue dye, similar to food coloring, is added to assist evaporation (saving the burning 400,000 tons of coal each year). The solar ponds are lined with heavy vinyl to prevent brine from leaking into the ground and the Colorado River. Holding ponds catch any spills and return potassium-rich brine to the ponds. The snow-dusted La Sal Mountains reach 12,780 feet in elevation.
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  • Mesa Arch frames buttes back lit by sunrise at Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA.
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  • Mesa Arch glows at sunrise in Canyonlands National Park, Utah in 2006. Panorama stitched from five images. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • Mesa Arch frames buttes in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2123_Mesa-Arch_Canyonlands-NP.jpg
  • Mesa Arch frames buttes back lit by sunrise at Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2122_Mesa-Arch_Canyonlands-NP.jpg
  • Mesa Arch frames buttes back lit by sunrise at Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA.
    06UT_2112_Mesa-Arch_Canyonlands-NP-p...jpg
  • Balanced Rock glows at dusk in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The Entrada Sandstone at Balanced Rock (128 feet/39 meters high) balances a caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member upon a base of the Dewey Bridge Member, a mudstone. The snow-dusted La Sal Mountains reach 12,780 feet in elevation.
    06UT_2098_Arches-NP.jpg
  • Balanced Rock catches golden rays of sunset in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The Entrada Sandstone at Balanced Rock (128 feet/39 meters high) mounts a caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member upon a base of the Dewey Bridge Member, a mudstone. The snow-dusted La Sal Mountains reach 12,780 feet in elevation, formed as a result of intrusion of igneous rocks and subsequent erosion of the surrounding less-resistant sedimentary rocks.
    06UT_2075_Arches-NP.jpg
  • Balanced Rock catches golden rays of sunset in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The Entrada Sandstone at Balanced Rock (128 feet/39 meters high) balances a caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member upon a base of the Dewey Bridge Member, a mudstone. The snow-dusted La Sal Mountains reach 12,780 feet in elevation. (Panorama stitched from 2 photos.)
    06UT_2073-2074pan_Arches-NP.jpg
  • Twisted tree branches reach towards Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The Entrada Sandstone at Balanced Rock (128 feet/39 meters high) balances a caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member upon a base of the Dewey Bridge Member, a mudstone.
    06UT_2057_Arches-NP.jpg
  • Twisted tree branches reach towards Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, Utah, USA. The Entrada Sandstone at Balanced Rock (128 feet/39 meters high) balances a caprock of the hard Slick Rock Member upon a base of the Dewey Bridge Member, a mudstone.
    06UT_2056_Arches-NP.jpg
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