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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Not a true canyon: Bryce Canyon (USA) - maximum card that I created with an FDOI (First Day Of Issue) postmark

In the above MC, notice (click on it to enlarge) below the round cancel the group of horse riders (or mule riders?) on the trail.
This is a very interesting and weird landscape.
Not VOODOO, but HOODOO.
"Bryce Canyon National Park (pronounced /ˈbraɪs/) is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not actually a canyon but a giant natural amphitheater created by erosion along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by wind, water and ice erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular vistas for park visitors."

"Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon. Instead headward erosion has excavated large amphitheater-shaped features in the Cenozoic-aged rocks of the Paunsagunt Plateau.[5] This erosion exposed delicate and colorful pinnacles called hoodoos that are up to 200 feet (61 m) high. "

Another brick in the wall?
No, another hole in the wall, rather.


Here's another impressive view from there: Thor's Hammer.




1 comment:

  1. What! It's not a canyon? I was going to go there next month, but now that I see it's a fraud, I just don't know if I want to go anymore.

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