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Kodachrome Basin is a spectacle of towering sandstone chimneys, changing in color and shadow with the day's mood- from red-tinged spires against a blue sky, to soft evening light settling over the desert. This color and contrast inspired prompted the National Geographic Society in 1949, with consent from the Kodak Film Corp., to name the park Kodachrome Nearly 70 monolithic spires, ranging from six to 170 feet in height, jut up from the valley floor or protrude from the sandstone. These natural towers stand like stone sentries overlooking the park and create a backdrop that is sure to delight the senses and spark imagination. The redrock and semi-desert climate make this state park attractive to visitors all year.
sandstone pipe . A clastic pipe consisting of sandstone. It may originate in various ways: gravitational foundering of sand into underlying water-saturated mud; filling of a spring vent; filling of a cavity caused by solution of underlying limestone or by volcanic explosion; or penecontemporaneous sag due to removal of support by flowage. Syn: sandstone cylinder.
- www.americangeosciences.org/word/sandstone-pipe
- www.americangeosciences.org/word/sandstone-pipe
Huge Sandstone Pipes formed
in a huge curve in southeastern Utah.
How and Why?
in a huge curve in southeastern Utah.
How and Why?
They all formed at the same time about 140 million years ago but from many different strata levels.
At the southwest edge of the curve in Kodachrome State Park, Kane County Utah, 67 of the monolithic stone spires called sedimentary pipes accentuate multihued sandstone layers that reveal 180 million years of geologic time.
The color and beauty found here prompted a National Geographic Society expedition to name the area Kodachrome, after the popular color film, in 1948.
Time has eroded millions of years of sandstone and other sediments away to make a few of them visible.
What?
How? It had to be shockwaves. They travel at different speeds through rocks, sand, and water, turning the lightweight water and adhearing sand particles into sonic drills drilling to the surface.
Where Did the Shock Waves Come From ?