vacation pictures #5: south coyote buttes

[ilanarama]

I...I'm going to have to punt, here. Because the South Coyote Buttes are so mind-blowingly magnificent - the colors, the shapes, the sheer abstract artistry - that I really don't have anything to say. I've uploaded thirty pictures to my Flickr site, and you can find them all here. Or do the slideshow thing. There's a sliver of moon over a butte, there's a weird tower with a window in it, there are stripes, there are squiggles, there's a couple pictures of me. Um, yeah. Ogg say: sandstone nifty, make pretty pictures.

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[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

The lines are the shadow effects of the overhanging very thin layers. So actually they are not so much lines cut in the rock as they are flakes protruding from the rock. It's very odd, looking at them - the rock is so clearly made up of lots of layers stuck to each other.