BGuthrie Photos: AZ -- Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

AZ -- Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park:

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1. MON_030531_001_STITCH.JPG: Monument Valley. The three outcrops are (left to right) West Mitten Butte, East Mitten Butte, and the Merrick Butte.
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3. MON_030531_027.JPG: West Mitten Butte
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5. MON_030531_042.JPG: Three Sisters
6. MON_030531_064.JPG: John Ford Point. This is an area from which the film director John Ford liked to shoot a number of scenes from his movies. Obviously, things would be tougher today with all of the haze.
7. MON_030531_083.JPG: Sand Springs is in front. The stand-alone item is called Totem Pole.
8. MON_030531_100.JPG: If you need a reminder as to scale, look for the car on the road toward the left of the picture.
9. MON_030531_134.JPG: Bruce Guthrie @ Monument Valley
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Wikipedia Description: Monument Valley
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Monument Valley is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona (around 36�59'N, 110�6'W). The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163. The Navajo name for the valley is Ts� Bii' Ndzisgaii (Valley of the Rocks).

Geology:

The area is part of the Colorado Plateau. The floor is largely Cutler Red siltstone or its sand deposited by the meandering rivers that carved the valley. The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-gray rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide.

The buttes are clearly stratified, with three principal layers. The lowest layer is Organ Rock shale, the middle de Chelly sandstone and the top layer is Moenkopi shale capped by Shinarump siltstone.

Between 1948 and 1967, the southern extent of the Monument Upwarp was mined for uranium, which occurs in scattered areas of the Shinarump siltstone; vanadium and copper are associated with uranium in some of these deposits.

The Valley in media:

The twin buttes of the Valley ("the Mittens"), the "Totem Pole" (although the Navajo did not actually build totem poles), and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status. They have appeared in many television programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially Westerns.

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Director John Ford's 1939 film Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, has had an enduring influence in making the Valley famous. After that first experience, Ford returned nine times to shoot Westerns — even when the films were not set in Arizona or Utah (see The Searchers, set in Texas, but filmed here). A popular lookout point is named in his honor as "John Ford Point." It was used by Ford in a scene from The Searchers where an American Indian village is attacked.

* The Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey features footage ...More...
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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