Cathedral Rock

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an Cathedral Butte outside of Lees Ferry. The Vermillion Cliffs are in the background.

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junodirtrider

Venturing further north!!

Voted 10/10

There's desert rat climbing galore out there... and canyoneering!!

Posted Feb 25, 2010 1:54 am


	Woodzy	Re: Venturing further north!!
	Hasn't voted	Yes, there is some amazing stuff to do out north by Page. If only I had the time. The canyoneering is what is particularly interesting to me.
		Posted Feb 27, 2010 1:55 am


	Woodzy	Re: Venturing further north!!
	Hasn't voted	Yes yes, Larry is right. You sure have the names right for the Red Rocks. When was the last time you were at the Grand Canyon? I have a few trips planned there this spring with the geology department and NAU Outdoors...
		Posted Feb 27, 2010 1:57 am


	junodirtrider	Re: Venturing further north!!
	Voted 10/10	Hope you can take in Water Holes just south of Page. The upper portion is classic slot, the lower section on the other side of the bridge is too much rapping and ascending to and from the river to consider worth going for. Still the east side, upper portion is epic!!
		Posted Feb 27, 2010 1:58 pm

RayMondo

Fab shot

Voted 10/10

No wonder you want to get back there.

Great strata. Just been watching another program about Dinosaur extinction events. There are good sedimentary strata in AZ that show the iridium mat layer (black band several inches thick). Keep a look out for it as it would make a great pic for its significance.

Posted Feb 26, 2010 7:12 pm


	Woodzy	Re: Fab shot
	Hasn't voted	Yes, the formations in the area are on of a kind, especially with the Vermillion Cliffs in the background. Have you ever hear of the Grand Staircase of the Escalante? This area consists of everything from the Grand Canyon NP to Cedar Breaks NM in Utah. This area happens to be between. Lots of cool sandstone formations with great strata as you pointed out. I will keep a look out for the iridium. Do you know where its found? I am guessing on the Colorado Plateau?
		Posted Feb 27, 2010 1:59 am


	RayMondo	Re: Fab shot
	Voted 10/10	The layer covers much of the Earth. You are most likely to find it in exposed creek walls. Picture at this site: Mass Extinctions. Some links here. And Dinos getting Fried/a>
		Posted Feb 27, 2010 3:23 am


	Woodzy	Re: Fab shot
	Hasn't voted	Ohh, ic. I guess that can easily be mistaken for something else. Looks familar..
		Posted Mar 5, 2010 6:27 pm

rustybike

What a great image !

Voted 10/10

And I bet you that you risked ruin and misery way out there to picture such a gem in the desert taking a daring escapade that was an ordeal of sunburns and thirst searching for that mythical place following an obstacle course which really made some hair grow on your chest !

By the way;

I guess that some of you folks must be rock hounds at heart which enjoy further describing with the proper detail what you observe such a mesa most probably originating with wind born erosion.

As for the iridium band , it is present at a specific point in time such iridium (a platinum group metal) being associated with iron rich meteorites leading us to grasp that a large piece of rock hit the earth at a spcific point in time causing global devastation (it wasn't some weird device to get rid of dinos... And why did the crocs survive the ordeal while the other aquatic dinos couldn't despite both laying eggs on land ? ). A comet for it's part would not leave such a stark proof of it's presence even if we suspect that in the past they may have hit with a certain level of regularity to account for the fact that earth is mostly water such water (despite production from sources as volcanoes..Magma contains much water trapped as gas..) being prevented from excessibvely evaporating into the atmosphere and space because of the higher gravitational attraction, lower temperatures (in a range sufficiant to have such water exist under 3 states)and high atmospheric pressure ...

Some while back I was looking at satellite imagery of the Otish hills and wondered if some of the lone features visible were mesas. I most probably am mistaken. Although the region is basically unexplored...

http://heavenlybike.tripod.com/id8.html

Posted Mar 1, 2010 5:04 pm


	Woodzy	Re: What a great image !
	Hasn't voted	Funny that you mention daring. I took this picture from the back of my girlfriends truck on the way back from Lees Ferry to Flagstaff. My parents found out and they weren't happy in the least bit. Hmm, that is very interesting. Seems like there could be some controversy with that whole topic. It is science after all..Thanks for the comment!
		Posted Mar 5, 2010 6:31 pm