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UT -- Arches Natl Park:

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1. ARCH_030528_016.JPG: This area is known as the Courthouse Towers.
2. ARCH_030528_029.JPG: Arches National Park
3. ARCH_030528_099.JPG: The one on the left is called Balanced Rock for obvious reasons
4. ARCH_030528_106.JPG: This is the North Window. Look for the people standing inside to give you some idea of the scale of this.
5. ARCH_030528_120.JPG: Across from the Windows is Turret Arch
6. ARCH_030528_126.JPG: This is the South Window
7. ARCH_030528_137.JPG: This is from inside Turret Arch
8. ARCH_030528_148.JPG: Together, the two Window arches look like a pair of glasses. You can see the nose. In this case, the tree is a makeshift mustache.
9. ARCH_030528_212.JPG: This is Delicate Arch, probably the most famous of the arches in the park. It appears on the Utah license plate.
10. ARCH_030528_266.JPG: This is Skyline Arch. In 1940, a chunk of rock fell out of the opening, roughly doubling its size.
11. ARCH_030528_299.JPG: This is Landscape Arch. As a sign tells you, "September 1, 1991 -- Hikers thought they heard cracks of thunder from distant clouds. Visitors resting under Landscape Arch noticed loud cracking and popping noises overhead. They fled as small rocks tumbled from the slender 306-foot-long span. Moments later, a 60-foot-long rock slab peeled away from the arch's right side. When the dust settled, 180 tons of fresh rock debris lay scattered on the ground. "What caused this cataclysmic event? Water had been slowly shaping the arch for countless centuries, dissolving cement between sand grains, seeping into tiny cracks, freezing and expanding. What had finally upset the delicate balance? "Unseasonably heavy rains the preceding ten days may have filled pore spaces within the sandstone. The added weight may have finally overwhelmed the rock slab in its timeless struggle with gravity." My only major regret this trip was that I didn't really have time to go back to the park in the morning hours to catch a better picture of this arch. Next time, I'll do that as well as take the hiking trail to Delicate Arch.
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Wikipedia Description: Arches National Park
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Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.

The park is located near Moab, Utah, and is 119 square miles (309 km�) in size. Its highest elevation is 5,653 feet (1,723 m) at Elephant Butte and its lowest elevation is 4,085 feet (1,245 m) at the visitor center. Since 1970, 42 arches have toppled because of erosion. Arches National Park receives 10 inches (250 mm) of rain a year on average.

The area, administered by the National Park Service, was originally designated as a national monument on April 12, 1929. It was redesignated a national park on November 12, 1971. More than 833,000 people visited it in 2006.

Features:

Among the notable features of the park are:

* Delicate Arch — a lone-standing arch which has become a symbol of Utah
* Balanced Rock — a large balancing rock, the size of three school buses
* Double Arch — two arches, one on top of the other
* Landscape Arch — a very thin, very long arch over 300 feet (100 m); the largest in the park
* Fiery Furnace — an area of maze-like narrow passages and tall rock columns (see biblical reference Fiery Furnace)
* Devil's Garden — with many arches and columns scattered along a ridge
* Dark Angel — a free-standing column of dark stone at the end of the Devil's Garden trail.
* Courthouse Towers — a collection of tall stone columns
* Petrified dunes — petrified remnants of sand dunes blown from the ancient lakes that covered the area.

Geology:

The national park lies atop an underground salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches and spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area. Thousands of feet thick in places, this salt bed was deposited over the Colorado Plateau some 300 million years ago when a sea flowed in ...More...
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2003 photos: Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. 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. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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