Arizona's Amazing "Iron Oxide" Curtain

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Arizona's Amazing "Iron Oxide" Curtain

$Arizona\'s Amazing "Iron Oxide" Curtain$

Page Type: Album

Image Type(s): Rock Climbing, Hiking, Flora, Informational, Scenery, Humor

Page By: lcarreau

Created/Edited: Feb 25, 2009 / Mar 30, 2011

Object ID: 493027

Hits: 1943

Page Score: 89.86% - 39 Votes

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So, why are the rocks red?

Abutting the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau, these landforms are red simply due to RUST.
Originating from the ancestral Rocky Mountains, a very thin layer of oxidized iron coats each grain of quartz sand in these
colorful sandstone formations surrounding Sedona, Arizona.

Courthouse Butte abuts the Colorado Plateau

Clouds over Cathedral Rock

Over time, Eye Candy becomes very sandy!

Just a very small amount of iron oxide can produce vivid colors in soils and
rocks.
Although RED is the most common color, not all iron oxides are red.
Some are brown, yellow, black or even green - like some person's eyes.

Crumby and easily erodible, the formations you see here will eventually
SURRENDER to the sands of time.

WARNING ... WHILE these blazing rock images may resemble FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN,

rest assured they can SHATTER like a fragile ... (yet beautiful) ... HEART OF GLASS!!!

Bell Rock s Spire Aspires The Spirit In Me

Bell Rock from the North

The Flying Buttress

Rust Never Sleeps...

"Where the vulture glides descending,
On an asphalt highway bending,
Through libraries and museums, galaxies and stars.
Down the windy halls of friendship,
To the rose clipped by the bullwhip;
The motel for lost companions,
Waits with heated pool and bar.

But me I'm not stopping there,
Got my own row left to hoe.
Just another line in the field of time ..."

Neil Young (from Rust Never Sleeps) - 1979

Juniper Woodland south of Sedona

The stage is set for the formation of a natural arch near the Soldier Pass Trail.

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Appointment At The Courthouse

The Three Golden Chiefs

Kachina winks at You

Disorder in the Court!!!

$Day\'s End At The Courthouse$

Day's End At The Courthouse

<i>Return To "<font color=red>Red Sector A</font>"

Return To "Red Sector A"

Promontory of Fire

$Laddie, Don\'t Forget Your Red Mitten!$

Laddie, Don't Forget Your Red Mitten!

Somebody Spoke And I Went Into A Dream

Dancer ... Crossing The Sky

Hot Colour - Melting The Anger To Stone?

Snoopy Takes His Holiday Siesta !

Communion With The Sun

Court of the Crimson King

Vertigo

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	lcarreau	Re: Thank you...
	Hasn't voted	How 'bout "Heaven's Gate," because it rhymes with 5848 and maintains the "New Age" theme? : )) I went up to the base of Summit Block Rock the day after the cold snap hit. I saw a couple people ascending; don't know if they reached the top. I'd like to go up Mormon Canyon to take some pics of Earth Angel!
		Posted Oct 31, 2009 11:37 pm

EricChu

Wonderful!!!!!

Voted 10/10

Colors, structures, monumentality, light, contrasts - this album is a feast for the eye! Congratulations, Larry!!

Posted Dec 30, 2009 6:23 pm


	lcarreau	Re: Wonderful!!!!!
	Hasn't voted	Not a problem, Eric. Hmmmmm, did you say feast? Excuse me while I make another run for the refrigerator. : ))
		Posted Dec 30, 2009 8:32 pm

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