Once again I had the opportunity to visit one of my favorite places in the Coyote Buttes of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Northern Arizona. These clay beds get their color from minerals leeching through the porous Chinle Clay Bed layer.
Once again I had the opportunity to visit one of my favorite places in the Coyote Buttes of Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Northern Arizona. These clay beds get their color from minerals leeching through the porous Chinle Clay Bed layer.
Surely this is a moonscape or something! 🙂
It is Earthly!
These are simply stunning natural art!
Thanks Eliza!
The vermilion cliffs look like the backs of lizaards! How beautiful they are.
Next time your out this way, I’ll tell you how to get there
All right! We sure had a fabulous time in Death Valley! I had no idea how diverse it was…
Yes, it is diverse. I’m heading there Thursday
I would go back in a flash!
Thank you Michael for sharing with us these beauty. I have always wondered about these colors, now I know.
Thanks Cornelia!
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Wow, beautiful colors. The fine details makes it hard to tell the scale in the first two images. Could be aerial photos of a huge mountain range!
Breathtaking… I’ve visited AZ several times and wonder how did I miss this place…. thanks for sharing.
Thanks. they are not easy to find