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For the last 800 years, lime has been mined here.
But 63 million years ago, it was a giant coral reef at the bottom of an ocean.
If you bring a hammer and chisel, you can find shells, shark teeth, sea crocodile teeth and more.
It was "only" 3 million years after the great meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs, but life on earth flourished again. There is a geomuseum on site that tells about nature at that time.
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Took this late night capture under moonlight into black and white. Nice with Venus and Pleiades there in the sky too.
Another visit to this location with some ok conditions providding a hint of colour and some flow over the rock shelf.
A three-meter Silvertip Shark with an entourage of hundreds of Rainbow Runners was spectacular.
To read our story about Lihou Reef Atoll click
This point near Bell Buoy Beach in northern Tasmania marks the beginning of a rocky reef. As the name suggests it extends out to sea and along the coast for two miles. It is one of the reasons the Low Head Lighthouse was built to warn shipping.
The Caineville Reef is immediately east of the Waterpocket Fold in Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The repeated forms are Mancos Shale, which few plant species can invade.
This gateway leads into the Capitol Gorge area of Capitol Reef National Park.
As we viewed sheer cliffs in many places on this trip, like the cliff on the left, we wondered what massive force(s) would make an almost perfectly flat slab of vertical rock loosen itself and fall. Just one of the many things that come to mind when beholding such natural marvels.
The term reef in this context had puzzled me because I normally thought of a reef in an aquatic setting. Wikipedia, however, comes to the rescue. In a dry land setting, “… reef refers to any rocky barrier to land travel, just as ocean reefs are barriers to sea travel.”
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Was lucky that this fellow flew in for a few minutes whilst at Long Reef. Not as sharp as one would like as it was just after sunrise.
Along the scenic drive in the Capitol Reef National Park, don't pass up the stop at the Slick Rock Divide. One gets great views along the winding once-underwater reef in this now high desert, ambling over this terrain as you wish. This is from Spring, 2023.
My brother took this with his underwater film camera :]
I think it's just a really cool picture, considering that most of the other ones aren't so great.
I just think it's cool how it came from film :], kodak 800ISO actually. haha ya im a loser.
but seriously for such a shitty dinky camera, i like how this came out.
A cloudy and rainy day presented few opportunities at Long Reef this morning. This was taken on the way bay up the hill when the clouds started to clear.
The San Rafael Reef rises spectacularly, with uplifted monoliths of bare sandstone reaching hundreds of feet above the desert. This formation, which continues for many miles, is accented by a repeated pattern of soil and brightly colored rock forming "teeth" at the bases of the uplifted slabs. This shot shows the repeated pattern and the layers of the "teeth."
The pattern formed by many teeth is seen in the first comment.
Capitol Reef Sunrise: The color of the rocks at Utah's Capitol Reef National Park give a fantastic analogous color match with the rising sun, with the spots of green complimenting the magenta hues. I found this excellent sunrise view at Sunset Point, which is a perfect location for getting a grand view of this beautiful park.
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If you like this one you're invited to view the Sunset/Sunrise set