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The very red Permian - Triassic aged Spearfish formation along the Red Beds Trail. The white deposits are thin beds of gypsum. Devils Tower National Monument.
Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Taken with Nikkormat FTn, scanned with HP flatbed scanner at 300ppi. The negative was really low contrast, so I fixed the exposure in photoshop. I liked the character the dust and flaws give, so I didn't bother to clean it up.
The very red Permian - Triassic aged Spearfish formation along the Red Beds Trail, Devils Tower National Monument.
Silhouette of Devil's Tower in Northeastern Wyoming. Looks kind of eerie like it's waiting for the mothership of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to arrive.
I didn't really have the time for a detour, especially after getting caught in a snow storm, so I had to just snap the Devil's Tower from the road at a great distance. But hey, at least I saw it with my own eyes, right?
Devils Tower National Monument - The Tower is an astounding geologic feature that protrudes out of the prairie surrounding the Black Hills. It is considered sacred by Northern Plains Indians and indigenous people.
Bear Lodge Butte, known more commonly as Devil's Tower, is the core of an extinct ancient volcano, and is sacred to the many indigenous tribes of the surrounding region, who have revered it as a sacred site for millennia. The butte stands 867 feet (264 meters) tall, and rises 1,267 feet (386 meters) atop a stone outcrop above the adjacent Belle Fourche River. The butte became a National Monument in 1906, owing to its significance as a natural geologic formation, but unfortunately, this did not include the similar, though less eroded, Missouri Buttes to the northwest.
The butte is a dramatic rock formation that rises out of the surrounding landscape and is visible from miles away. Surrounded by a bluff made of sedimentary rock, the butte towers over the grassy lowlands along the Belle Fourche River, today home to wildlife, including a colony of prairie dogs. The butte stands out among the surrounding lowlands, being visible from roadways miles away, enticing tourists to stop at pull-outs to take photos and marvel at the majesty of the butte.
The butte is known to the local indigenous tribes as the "Bear's House" or "Bear Lodge," but was given the name "Devil's Tower" by a European-American visitor to the area, who misinterpreted the indigenous names of the butte. There have been ongoing efforts since the early 21st Century to change the name back to "Bear Lodge," but these have been opposed by government officials due to fears of decreased tourism.
Devils Tower is a monolith (more technically, an igneous intrusion) or volcanic neck located near Hulett and Sundance in eastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1267 feet (386 m) above the surrounding terrain. Located at 44°35′26″N, 104°42′56″W, the summit is 5112 feet (1558 m) above sea level.
(wikipedia)