At the base of Hurricane Wash just to the south of Zion National Park inside the Escalante Grand Staircase formation I found this very unusual geological stratified formation. Pretty much impossible to see from the ground, this place has no name on any topo map.
I lensed this image while flying on my way to film Zion National Park... as I flew over this it stood out very clearly from above. With such interesting colors and shapes I had to take a shot of it.
It lays right inside the Arizona border with Utah along the Hurricane Cliffs between Hurricane Wash and Fort Pearce Wash and just north of Coyote Spring. Looking very similar to the elevation lines you would find on a detailed topographic map, these are ridges that have slowly eroded away over time.
The entire surrounding area is part of the Grand Staircase and the Vermillion Cliffs which is where the beautiful colors come from. To describe how the different geological layers make up the stratified colors in this image I found a really great graphic online... In this image you can clearly see how the different stratified layers present different colors in the staircase formation. The colors are layered as shown in the following graphic:
This is from "Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition" my personal project of exploration in the North American Wilderness. This is my mission to raise awareness of our Iconic Natural Heritage Treasures of North America.
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