The Spire Along The Way....
Jan 12, 2022 17:57:59 #
Don, the 2nd son wrote:
"If these stones could talk!!"
They would say "lava on top of sandstone"
Jan 12, 2022 18:30:40 #
Jan 12, 2022 22:29:33 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Cany143 wrote:
....to Flat Pass, the route into 'Right Hand' (as the south fork of Mill Creek Canyon is locally called).
Now that is an odd and interesting scene. Very well captured.
By chance, do you have a wider shot? The different colors of the rocks have me curious as to what went on here millions of years ago. Or maybe your vast knowledge can fill in my half vast knowledge.
Jan 13, 2022 12:12:51 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
lmTrying wrote:
Now that is an odd and interesting scene. Very well captured.
By chance, do you have a wider shot? The different colors of the rocks have me curious as to what went on here millions of years ago. Or maybe your vast knowledge can fill in my half vast knowledge.
By chance, do you have a wider shot? The different colors of the rocks have me curious as to what went on here millions of years ago. Or maybe your vast knowledge can fill in my half vast knowledge.
I have other/wider shots of the area near this spire (located along the eastern side [or rim] of Spanish Valley, effectively the southerly end of Moab Valley), but they really wouldn't help much and they'd give practically no indication of what went on over time. The geomorphology of this area is extremely complex. The easiest answer would be that the various colors of the rock are a result of more or less amounts of iron (and other mineral) oxides in the layers of the rock that are presently exposed and visible, that those (mostly sedimentary) layers had been deposited during wet periods and dry periods over half a billion years, and that all those layers have been tumbled and jumbled and folded and eroded like a huge multi-multi layer cake that got dropped and kicked and partially eaten by a two-year old on a sugar rush, but not all at once.
But if you're really interested, and want to fill in the missing portion of your half-vast knowledge, the following will help you get there:
https://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/geologicmaps/7-5quadrangles/m-181.pdf
Jan 23, 2022 11:07:35 #
Jan 23, 2022 17:11:29 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
DickC wrote:
Wow, hope that rock never falls on you Jim!! 
Me, too, Dick. But if it did, it wouldn't hurt for very long....
Jan 24, 2022 09:18:23 #
Cany143 wrote:
Me, too, Dick. But if it did, it wouldn't hurt for very long....
LOL! no it wouldn't!
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