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The Devils Hall Trail ends, reasonably enough, at Devils Hall, a narrow slot canyon of sorts carved through the limestone. The hall is about 300 feet long, running between cliffs that rise a hundred feet on both sides.
This almost had the look of a roadcut, but it obviously is natural. It's hard for me to work out how this happened, though. It's not like an actual canyon, as the level of the trail is the same on either side. It's more like somebody cut through the hill. It may be something like a water gap, in which streems cut through either side of the hill until one captured the other. Or there might have been a natural break in the rock, and one side slid away from the other.
Edit: I've since worked this out. Pine Springs Canyon marks the location of a minor fault formed during regional deformation probably related to the Laramide Orogeny that formed the Colorado Plateau and the Rocky Mountains. The canyon and its fault does a little jog here, running to the left of the rock wall you see. The hall began as a fracture in the rock during this faulting which has since weathered.
Devil's Dyke is the remains of a prehistoric defensive ditch which lies at the east side of the village of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England. ... It is generally agreed to have been part of the defences of an Iron Age settlement belonging to the Catuvellauni tribe of Ancient Britain. It has possible associations with Julius Caesar's second invasion of Britain (54 BC)
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Dyke,_Hertfordshire.
June. 2, 2005.
Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Sundance Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres.
June. 2, 2005.
Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Sundance Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres.
June. 2, 2005.
Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Sundance Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres.