Theresa & Joe | Caravan Life

The sunrise scene at Little Egypt Geologic Area was a combination of dramatic, dark, stormy skies, glowing sunlit rocks and a rainbow. 🌈

We followed the formations to the far end, climbed up and out to stunning views, continued across the higher terrain for a short distance, then took another way back down.

Little Egypt’s hoodoos
are carved from Jurassic-age Entrada Sandstone, the same rock layer found in Goblin Valley, Cathedral Valley, and parts of Arches National Park. Millions of years of weather and erosion created the rounded towers. Iron oxide in the sandstone gives them the red and orange hue.

Long ago, while the sandstone was still buried, groundwater moved through the porous rock. In some places that water chemically dissolved or altered the hematite, basically bleaching the sandstone and forming the unique light bands.

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