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Travelling these days, so this is another archive post, taken recently while visiting Southern Utah. It is a representative Southern Utah landscape image, composed while hiking the Grapevine Trail near the town of Washington.
One can see basalt columns to the left - residues of ancient volcanoes - and a wind and water sculpted sandstone mound on the right.
Morning sunlight down through clouds over the pretty Utah landscape. Taken along Route 24 in Utah north of Hanksville.
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Known as Utah Beach during the Normandy landings on June 6 1944 (D-Day) - by the village of La Madeleine.
A red lake is bordered by sandy shore, forming an interesting pattern, do you know the name of this lake?
Looking toward Mount Ellen in southern Utah (Moab region) which appears to have its own storms happening.
This weeks SNS is Utah 401, 402, 403 and 600 leaving Provo with eastbound empties on January 6, 1977. Keith Ardinger photo, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
Captured just beyond the North and South Windows area there in Arches National Park. It is easy to forget these other pretty areas when you focus mainly on the arches themselves. These formations and rocks are just amazing to see and a fun to photograph ... just have to 'remember' to capture them too.
This beast was on the move there at Moab Giants in the Utah desert. Probably concerned because there was the threat of a T-Rex sighted in the area :)
This is a view from an airplane taking off from the Provo, Utah airport. In the foreground is frozen Utah Lake and in the background a snow covered Mt. Timpanogos. Provo and Orem lie in between on this cold December morning.
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Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known films, and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its 13 square kilometers have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West." Between 1945 and 1967, the southern extent of the Monument Upwarp was mined for uranium, which occurs in scattered areas of the Shinarump Conglomerate; vanadium and copper are associated with uranium in some deposits.
Running northward up the valley toward Heber City we find UP 618 approaching an old portholed battleship Buick - February 6, 2007.
This high point of view there in Utah gives a nice view back over the Escalante and Grand Stair Case layers as they step down towards Arizona. Monument Valley is there along the extreme horizon view.
Taken along the river bed that leads to the Owachomo Bridge. Liked those clouds there above the scene too.
I composed this Utah mountain view from the Entrada region of the city of St. George. Why are the rocks and mountains of Utah so multi-coloured? For those who are interested, I have provided ssome information below.
Since minerals form the basis for many pigments and dyes, it should be no surprise that they are also responsible for the coloration of rocks. Of all the common colorful minerals found in earth’s crust, few are as abundant, dynamic, and multi-colored as iron. Depending on how it combines with other elements, iron can form a veritable rainbow of colors. When iron combines with oxygen it becomes iron oxide, and its degree of oxidation largely determines its color. Ochre, a mixture of clay, sand, and iron oxide, has been one of the most commonly mined mineral pigments for tens of thousands of years and is composed of the same minerals that often color rocks. Obtained from iron-bearing clays, ochre can produce several colors and hues that are used as natural coloring agents. Red ochre comes from hematite (Fe2O3), a mineral named for the same Greek root word for blood, and has long been used as a red pigment. Some iron oxides, when hydrated (combined with hydrogen and oxygen), can form bright yellows such as yellow ochre which comes from the mineral limonite (FeO(OH)+H2O). Brown ochre comes from the mineral goethite (FeO(OH)) and is a partially hydrated iron oxide. Iron can also form black pigments from minerals such as magnetite (Fe3O4), or even blue and green hues from minerals such as glauconite and illite. For the most part, these iron minerals, and particularly hematite, are responsible for coloring the Colorado Plateau’s sedimentary rock layers.