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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.UTAH 7689] 'Holes in the rock.' Some walls are decorated with complicated patterns of indentations, holes and caves. It looks like a group of crazy sculptors with a strange sense of humour have been at work (Paria Canyon).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048581_VWdEZ-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7689] 'Holes in the rock.' Some walls are decorated with complicated patterns of indentations, holes and caves. It looks like a group of crazy sculptors with a strange sense of humour have been at work (Paria Canyon).")
![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 3886] 'Pavement of giants.' We cross a plain two kilometres long, paved with pentagonal orange stones, each a full meter across. We feel like archaeologists in a long-lost world of giants (Coyote Buttes North).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048570_y3skV-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3886] 'Pavement of giants.' We cross a plain two kilometres long, paved with pentagonal orange stones, each a full meter across. We feel like archaeologists in a long-lost world of giants (Coyote Buttes North).")
![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 7719]
'Rock and roll.'
Ball of layered sandstone near the Paria Canyon. It may be of micro-organic origin, dating from the Jurassic era.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048564_EKwEN-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7719]
'Rock and roll.'
Ball of layered sandstone near the Paria Canyon. It may be of micro-organic origin, dating from the Jurassic era.")
[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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