UTAH / MONUMENT VALLEY
UTAH / MONUMENT VALLEY |
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| On the border between Arizona and Utah lays Monument Valley. It's one of the most beautiful and different landscapes, I have seen. A lot of westerns and other movies are shot here.
The geologic story of the very characteristic mesa's is deposits of very thick layers of sediments about 40-50,000,000 years ago. Since then a lot of the sediments have eroded. Because the top layer is more resistant than the layers below, mesa's with vertical sides stand back. |
Besides the beautiful nature with very clear, red colors it is remarkable how few people that live here. It is the land of the Navajo Indians. They have some kind of self-government and it is not permitted for non-Navajo's to buy a house in the area. |
 Monument Valley along US 163 a little north of Kayenta, 2007 (218 kb) |
 Boot Mesa about 16 km / 10 mi north of Kayenta along US 163, 2007 (227 kb) |
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 Monument Valley - here is the first sign of the very characteristic mesa's |
 Do you remember the scene from the movie Forrest Gump where he's running in the desert - it was shot here (40 kb) |
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2001When I arrived in Monument Valley, the weather wasn't to good, and soon it began raining. At night it actually was snowing. But the next day the weather was better. | ||
 Dinosaur foot print south of Monument Valley |
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