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![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/106648567_MwSvA-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3868] 'The Wave.' Behind the ravines entrance I walk into a giant wave of what seems to be a sticky red fluid with white stripes. Like sour cream stirred into pumpkin soup ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048582_YFes4-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3868] 'The Wave.' Behind the ravines entrance I walk into a giant wave of what seems to be a sticky red fluid with white stripes. Like sour cream stirred into pumpkin soup ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3879] 'Side wave.' I walk on in a side wave, a whole network of waves, some narrow and some half submerged. ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048579_RTKgj-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3879] 'Side wave.' I walk on in a side wave, a whole network of waves, some narrow and some half submerged. ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3887] 'Coyote Buttes North.' I stumble across a herd of ochre-yellow giant turtles. Or are they the roofs of the mud huts of an as of yet undiscovered people? (Overview of Coyote Buttes North).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048569_JvWGm-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3887] 'Coyote Buttes North.' I stumble across a herd of ochre-yellow giant turtles. Or are they the roofs of the mud huts of an as of yet undiscovered people? (Overview of Coyote Buttes North).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7711] 'Petrefied dunes.' Once this corner of the Colorade Platreau looked like the Sahara. Later it was covered and the sand turned into sandstone. But it resurfaced and now erosion reshapes the layered sand of old dunes.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048567_zP9dK-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7711] 'Petrefied dunes.' Once this corner of the Colorade Platreau looked like the Sahara. Later it was covered and the sand turned into sandstone. But it resurfaced and now erosion reshapes the layered sand of old dunes.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3895] 'Herd of giant turtles.' I stumble across a herd of ochre-yellow giant turtles. Or are they the roofs of the mud huts of an as of yet undiscovered people? (nature reserve Coyote Buttes North).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048566_H5hdc-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3895] 'Herd of giant turtles.' I stumble across a herd of ochre-yellow giant turtles. Or are they the roofs of the mud huts of an as of yet undiscovered people? (nature reserve Coyote Buttes North).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7738] 'Paria Canyon.' Hiking the Paria Canyon means crossing water every hundred meters. Never go without a stick, you might encounter quicksand.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048559_reD7E-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7738] 'Paria Canyon.' Hiking the Paria Canyon means crossing water every hundred meters. Never go without a stick, you might encounter quicksand.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7741] 'Buckskin Gulch.' In the blue-grey dusk we see the scaly back plates of a Stegosaurus loom (Buckskin Gulch, sculpted by flash floods).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048556_WYBsV-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7741] 'Buckskin Gulch.' In the blue-grey dusk we see the scaly back plates of a Stegosaurus loom (Buckskin Gulch, sculpted by flash floods).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7743]
'Buckskin Gulch.'
Many turns later, a gracefully bowed sail appears, woven of the most delicate satin. We let the ship from the underworld pass (Buckskin Gulch, sculpted by flash floods).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048555_eP78V-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7743]
'Buckskin Gulch.'
Many turns later, a gracefully bowed sail appears, woven of the most delicate satin. We let the ship from the underworld pass (Buckskin Gulch, sculpted by flash floods).")
[USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/106648567_MwSvA-S.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.")
[USA.UTAH 7714]
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.
'Above Paria Canyon.'
Once layers of sand were deposited in desert dunes. Later they were covered by other materials, they petrified and surfaced again when the Colorado Plateau was uplifted and then eroded.
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