Desert SouthWest 2009 - December Photo

Sandstone Monuments

Awesome and seemingly unchangeable, these gigantic red sandstone boulders tell a story. The forces of Nature that created Navajo Country are still at work. Exposed sandstone monoliths stand against blowing sand, rain and snow, followed by relentless freezing and thawing action. Periodically, as small cracks in vertical rock faces expand, large chunks break apart and crash to the ground.