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A super-size "Moqui Marble," formed when water deep inside the Navajo Sandstone concentrated the iron oxide (which makes the sandstone red) into harder Hematite (iron ore). Little ones are everywhere on this route.
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Amazing sandstone mountains.
Hoodoos atop Panorama Point. The black caprock is hematite, formed deep inside the Navajo Sandstone when water dissolved the red iron oxide and concentrated it in a crack.
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Brandon Plewe
Nov 23, 2018 near Springdale, UT
“A super-size "Moqui Marble," formed when water deep inside the Navajo Sandstone concentrated the iron oxide (which makes the sandstone red) into harder Hematite (iron ore). Little ones are everywhere on this route.”  

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A super-size "Moqui Marble," formed when water deep inside the Navajo Sandstone concentrated the iron oxide (which makes the sandstone red) into harder Hematite (iron ore). Little ones are everywhere on this route.
Hoodoos atop Panorama Point. The black caprock is hematite, formed deep inside the Navajo Sandstone when water dissolved the red iron oxide and concentrated it in a crack.
The Panorama from Panorama Point, looking west to the tunnels, north to Many Pools and Petroglyph Canyon, and east to the Checkerboard area.
Panorama Point from the parking area, showing the described route to the top.
Cockeye Falls during an August thunderstorm.
A few of the petroglyphs
View from road before the tunnel.
Amazing sandstone mountains.
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