BGuthrie Photos: UT -- Arches Natl Park -- Petroglyph trail

UT -- Arches Natl Park -- Petroglyph trail:

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Description of Pictures: Courthouse Wash Rock Art: Rock art is often found at crossroads in the landscape, such as here where Courthouse Wash joins the Colorado River. Along the cliff face above, Archaic Indians painted long, tapered figures known as the Barrier Canyon style of rock art. Painted on top of these pictographs are white shields of the prehistoric Anasazi or the historic Ute people. Petroglyphs -- images pecked, incised, or abraded on stone -- by the Utes are also here.
In 1980, this ancient rock art was vandalized. The National Park Service cleaned the defaced rock art but can never restore it. Much of the bright contrasting pigment has been lost forever.
Most damage to rock art is done inadvertently. Help preserve rock art by not touching it, and by not leaving marks or graffiti on this or other canyon walls. Watch where out step -- there are petroglyphs on the flat surface below the painted figure.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ARCHPE_060601_037.JPG: Another soul calling out for forced sterilization....
2. ARCHPE_060601_048.JPG: These are the paintings that were severely vandalized in 1980. They're fairly hard to see now.
3. ARCHPE_060601_067.JPG: Gun shot holes.
4. ARCHPE_060601_074.JPG: You get an amazing view from up here
5. ARCHPE_060601_163.JPG: After having found the art, I took several pictures on my way down the hill so I could try to remember where they were from the distance. The main art is on the flat surface in the mid-lower left.
6. ARCHPE_060601_171.JPG: Again, look where the artwork is so you can spot it in the pictures taken even farther away.
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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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