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April 29, 2003
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Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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1991
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Bruce Dale
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Occupying 527 square miles [1,365 square kilometers] of the [Colorado] plateau, Canyonlands National Park embodies a sweeping range of geological special effects. Sprinkled through its deep canyons and high windswept mesas are sandstone arches, hoodoos, pinnacles, domes, and fins. Sheer cliffs stand thousands of feet above lush river bottoms. Tiny streams echo in enormous overhanging alcoves. The bedrock itself takes on so many shapes that it seems almost fluid.
—Text adapted from the National Geographic book The Atlas of Natural America, 2001
(Photograph from "John Wesley Powell: Vision for the West," April 1994, National Geographic magazine)
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