Give a Cheer
1963 family vacation. The journaling reads: At Bryce Canyon National Park, huge amphitheaters care carved into soft sedimentary rocks and decorated with towers, turrets, and notched ridges so intricate they have to be seen to be believed! Soft pink and white siltstone and limestone layers that wall the amphitheaters were deposited in a Paleocene lake and now are known as the Claron formation. Lifted high on two of Utah’s high plateaus, these rocks have been, and will be receding at the rate of 0-48 inches per century. Looking at the map you can easily see the headward erosional features found in Bryce Canyon and the undisturbed plateau whose fate it is to become part of the canyon. The top photo shows a section of one of Bryce Canyon’s amphitheaters. The tall spire in the first photo on the bottom row topped with a block feature is a Hoodoo known as Thor’s Hammer. The next hoodoo formation is known as Natural Bridge. The last photo shows the pink and white layers of sediment laid down in a vast lake, a lake larger then Lake Erie, which once covered this area.
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