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A hoodoo at the Valley of Dreams.

#SaturdayScenery #NewMexico #hiking #geology

Looking out from under a rock ledge at a spectacular sandstone hoodoo. It has a trunk like a tree, off-white sandstone, maybe three feet in diameter at the base tapering to a little over 2' in the middle, then fanning out at the top into "fingers" that look a little like an elephant's foot. Balanced on top of the fingers is a huge rounded boulder of somewhat yellow and harder-looking sandstone. The balanced boulder is distinctly off center, looking like it should fall. The hoodoo is in a depression surrounded by layers of the same sort of stone -- crumbly looking off-white sandstone topped with harder yellower sandstone -- all weathered in a way that suggests that it's all in the process of becoming similar hoodoos. The overhang over the camera has a piece of the crumbly stone hanging from the top, a trapezoid of maybe 2-3' and about a foot thick, again looking like it should have fallen years ago. The sky is blue and cloudless.
#hiking #NewMexico #geology #saturdayscenery

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