Friday, July 3, 2015

Mail reveals the most bizarre natural

The sweeping design of this sandstone rock formation is found in the Coyote Buttes area of the Arizona Strip in Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness area that would be hugely popular with hikers were it not so heavily protected. Experts say the best photo opportunities come at midday but first visitors must get one of the 20 permits released each day for the area, with 10 of them released via a lottery four months in advance and the other ten dished out the day before an intended visit. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3050802/Out-world-ancient-rock-formations-bubbling-springs-bizarre-natural-attractions-Earth.Once permission is granted to visit there are no marked hiking tracks to get you there, as authorities are keen to preserve its natural beauty formed by the erosion of Navajo Sandstone during Jurassic age. The 190 million-year-old formation is made of sand dunes which turned to rock through time. They are stacked on top of another and hardened by deposit of calcium salts - causing the vertical and horizontal layers.

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