Posted on 11/26/2007 6:00:52 AM PST by em2vn
So there I was, standing with about 30 other hikers in boots and backpacks, jammed into a room no bigger than a double-wide in a one-story beige government building in a destitute moonscape otherwise known as southern Utah on a warm Friday morning....After a few minutes' rest, we headed south, looking to a tall, gray ridge on the horizon for a huge vertical crack that marked the entrance to the Wave.
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Obviously God made them that way 6K years ago.
Why would *anyone* make that video? It seem pretty useless to me.
What you are seeing is aeolian dunes formed on an ancient beach area. The wind blown sands piled up in varying directions and sometimes were swept flat by water before a new set of dunes were formed. These eventually were solidified as sandstone. What you are seeing is the erosional remains of all those years of buried dunes. The weird shapes were formed by water erosion of the sandstone formation. Because of the varying direction and tilt of the dune faces, the striations are as varied.
99.99999% of the YouTube catalog is pretty much useless junk............
For the aliens to intercept and learn about our culture.
All of the satellite uplinks have 'overspray' so everytime someone downloads this, you're painting the universe with it.
So--what you're saying is that I'm helping to kill the universe? :)
...aeolian ....
Last time I saw that word was in a sex novel..........
...only if you “look” at it.....
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LOL! That was the thread I was looking for! Thanks!
I have to see that. Awesome! Thanks for the post.
A BeeLine Novel...?
....Like I noticed who the publisher was.........
“Eventually” sounds like conjecture more than fact. Any empirical data to support that position?
The rock is sand stone. Water does tremendous designs in the stuff...Along with the mineral content in it. You can actually write your name in that sandstone with your finger.
Anyone here good at finding such things on google earth?
sure looks like a "singular dynamic force" doesn't it _ what with the very obvious level-line across the top. Looks like some giant flash flood or some such came through one day...swooshed the sand around and then the pattern got 'frozen' through decades of baking sun
“What you are seeing is aeolian dunes formed on an ancient beach area. The wind blown sands piled up in varying directions and sometimes were swept flat by water before a new set of dunes were formed. These eventually were solidified as sandstone. What you are seeing is the erosional remains of all those years of buried dunes. The weird shapes were formed by water erosion of the sandstone formation. Because of the varying direction and tilt of the dune faces, the striations are as varied.”
Right! As SengirV said, “Obviously God made them that way 6K years ago.”
You obviously aren't a musician. :-)
The whole area in the “four corners” region is a hikers/bikers/jeepers paradise. Bring your own water, tool-kit, food, etc.
Oncet while I was there in the Canyonlands area, a nice British couples’ jeep rental transmission decided to give way. The nearest tow was Nations’ Towing, out of Moab. About 800 bucks for a tow, and that was years ago. But it has some unique (truly) scenery and freedom that is really spectacular.
The ones that have been developed by scientists to place approximate ages on things such as superposition, stratigraphy, certain mineral isotopes, fossil records, uniformity etc. Not sure if that is what you meant; I certainly did not do the dating, but I have been in this area and seen the spectacular results of time and erosion. My favorite part of the country with its whimsical rock formations and stunning vistas. You can’t help but think God was in a playful mood when he created it.
No, it looks like sand morpology features layed down over time and in layers with subsequent erosion creating the effects seen. No single flood even is capable of creating this type of pattern.
I have been backpacking all over that area, from the Grand Canyon north to Arches. I love it.
Canyonlands was my favorite of them all. We hiked all over it. Elephant Canyon looked like a field of hamburgers with the rounded red and white sandstone formations. We found an ancient Indian burial way in a back portion of the park off trail.
Looks like some hikers found the taffy motherlode.
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Æolian means related to Aeolus, the Greek God of wind,
Don’t know if it’s aeolian but if you go to ANWR and look south toward the mountains you will see layers in the rock that have been bent and raised to vertical as geological forces moved stuff around over a period of time. Folding. Even solid rock isn’t so solid as to be permanent.
I could have swore Hummus was the Greek God of Wind.............
Between Canyonlands, Arches, and Monument Valley there's enough spectacular scenery in southern Utah for any tourist to marvel at. My wife and I plan to see Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, and a few others in the near future as well.
Canyonlands turned out be my wife's and myself's favorite park. And there are numerous great parks in Utah.
Beautiful photo and geology. The striping at the bottom was eroded at the top and has a thin layer of flat-lying rock. Then it looks like more of a similar striping rock above it - similar angles but not exact matches. The thin flat layer could have been a short period of time where the area was overlain by water and had calm water depostion).
Then the lighter sandstone at the very top seems to show a third type of depositional environment. (”Every picture tells a story don’t it”).
The steep synclines in your post reminded me of one that is faintly observed near Mt. Ararat and has been claimed to be the “petrified wood” of Noah’s Ark.
It is gorgeous, that’s for certain! Glad I’m not in charge of figuring it out.
It was all the little hidden gems that thrilled my brother and I camping. And CLEAN state parks.
Try Goblin Valley, Kodachrome Basin, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Colorado National Monument and the back portions of the Grand Canyon and Zion. We owned the north rim of the canyon and while tourists were packed like pigs in Zion Valley, we sat up top in peace and quiet with the best view in the world. And not three miles from our car.
You too? I’ve been out there (needles) dozens of times alone. Since Google Earth became popular, I have been able to zoom in on old campsites and it’s amazing the level of resolution they have on the park.
I’d be interested to know where the burial stuff is. I’ve found a lot of interesting stuff out there, but nothing like that! What’s amazing to me, is up until the 1950s the whole area was largely and truly unknown except for a few cowboys and ranchers. The uranium boom of the ‘50s punched a lot of jeep trails, and later on.. Well, you know the rest.
I’m captivated by that photo - it reminds me of something but I just can’t put my finger on it.
We hiked the first day to Chesler Park as we were running a bit late. If you have never been there to see the cowboy inscriptions from the 1800s make sure next time. There was a slot canyon you could tell they put the horses in and camped at the head of it. The campfire marks were still all over the walls.
From there you take the Joint trail to the horst and graben area near that large pictograph. Somewhere along there we lost the trail to the river and ended up cross country headed north towards the river (and a water tank if necessary on the map). We missed both the trail and the tank and ended up pumping water from a pothole. That is where we found the burial. We moved off east to camp since water was now in hand.
I swear our packs weighed 80 pounds since it was November and we had hot and cold clothes, and all that water! We carried two gallon dromedary bags each and two full liter bottles (when we could).
Oh, I have been to Chesler many times, and the cowboy line camp. One of my favorite spots. One time, I hiked in solo in the wintertime. Had the whole dang park to myself it seemed like. Cold as hell, and the slickrock - well, that’s why it’s called slickrock - because with a thin coat of glaze ice, it’s impossible. Or impassable. Maybe with spike cleats, but other than that, forget it. Not going anywhere!
I have avoided the area near the Colorado because I hate carrying that much water! I’ve had good luck with a gallon maybe, a katadyn, and a sharp eye for those potholes. Another interesting area is the Needles Overlook, for a birds eye view of the whole area. But yeah, the elephant canyone area is the coolest. The silence is pretty cool too as a feature of the area. My ears take a day or two to stop ringing, don’t normally notice that except when in the area, because it’s so quiet.
That makes sense - wind and weather wearing down the softer layers?
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