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We're now at Bryce Point. Lots more pictures and videos from Paria Overlook and Bryce Point [ youtube video ]
Top photo: The nickname for this light-colored rock layer is The Alligator, named for its appearance from certain perspectives as a giant inflatable alligator pool float, lying on the more prominent reddish rock beneath it. This isolated rock layer is a concentration of dolomitic limestone, or dolostone (which contains up to 50 percent of the mineral dolomite), a protective, more erosion-resistant caprock found in the pink member of the c. 50 million-year-old Claron Formation of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
LLRubber Rabbit Brush was very bright.
LR zooming into the canyon looking to the NE.
Top photo: The nickname for this light-colored rock layer is The Alligator, named for its appearance from certain perspectives as a giant inflatable alligator pool float, lying on the more prominent reddish rock beneath it. This isolated rock layer is a concentration of dolomitic limestone, or dolostone (which contains up to 50 percent of the mineral dolomite), a protective, more erosion-resistant caprock found in the pink member of the c. 50 million-year-old Claron Formation of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
LLRubber Rabbit Brush was very bright.
LR zooming into the canyon looking to the NE.