Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon
by Inge Riis McDonald
Title
Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon
Artist
Inge Riis McDonald
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Bryce Canyon is a National Park in Utah, US. It is the world�s largest collection of hoodoos, strange shaped pillars of rock left standing after the surrounding rock has been eroded away by wind and water.
Bryce Canyon is located on the high Colorado Plateau in south-west Utah. The high elevations and it�s climate as well as the geology of the rocks are the fundamentals of the formation of these fantastic hoodoos.
The rocks seen exposed today in Bryce Canyon was deposited during the Cretaceous � 144-63 million years ago. For most of this period, what is the Colorado Plateau today was a vast seaway where sediments of many types were deposited as the sea came and went. The sediments accumulated thousands of feet thick. These are the oldest and lowest rocks in Bryce. Following their deposit, the following 25 million years saw the deposition of iron-rich, limy sequences in lakes and streams. These formations are the red and pink rocks in which the hoodoos are carved by wind and water with the softer rocks weathering first.
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July 15th, 2016
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