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The Painted Wall:
At 2,300 feet, Painted Wall is the highest cliff in Colorado. If the Empire State Building stood on the canyon floor, it would reach slightly more than halfway to the top of the cliff.
The patterns that inspired the name Painted Wall were created more than a billion years ago when molten rock was squeezed (intruded) into fractures and joints in the existing rock, the cooled and hardened. Unlike a painting, these patterns are three-dimensional. If you were to slice off a section of a cliff, an entirely different pattern would be revealed. |