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| Zane Paxton | profile | all galleries >> Southwest Trip Sept. 2003 (12 Galleries) >> Stop #3 -- Bryce Canyon | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
Stop #3
Bryce Canyon National Park
Utah
At 8,700 to 9.100'elevation, the dry and cold environment creates 200 days a year of freeze-thaw cycles which is the primary erosion force that created Bryce as we know it. Erosion has shaped colorful Claron limestone, sandstone, and mudstone into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles, and mazes. Collectively called "hoodoos," these colorful and whimsical formations stand in horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters along the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in Southern Utah.
 Hoodoos-2 |
 Hoodoos-1 |
 Wall Street-2 |
 Hoodoos-3 |
 Last Light at Natural Bridge |
 HooDoos-5 |
 Hoodoos at Dusk-4 |
 Sunrise Point-3 |
 HooDoos at Dawn-1 |
 Hoodoos before dawn-3 |
 Wall Street at Dawn |
 Hoodoos before dawn-5 |
 Hoodoos at last light |
 Sunrise Point at Dawn |
 Hoodoos at Dusk |
 Hoodoo Canyon |
 Hoodoo and bristlecone pine |
 Tunnel |
 Mossy Creek |
 Mossy Creek Falls |
 Mossy Creek Hoodoos |
 Amphitheatre at Dusk |
 Wall Street |
 Backlit Hoodoos |
 Hoodoos-4 |
 Amphitheatre at Dusk-4 |
 First-Light |
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