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Lizard on steep, featured red sandstone rock face

In this classic desert scene in Coyote Buttes of hte Utah Arizona border, a small lizard rests in the sunshine on a red sandstone rock face looking toward the camera. Behind the rock cliff is another sandstone feature and a sand dune with sage and other desert brush growing in it.

Lines in red sandstone of Southern Utah

Texture of sandstone and small lines protruding from the main rock face. These features form because the thin lines are more dense than the surrounding rock, so they erode more slowly creating ridges and lines in the rock.

Cliff rose growing from cracks in the red sandstone of Arizona

Layered sandstone is broken up and gave just enough space for this Cliff Rose to take hold and grow in the desert rock. Several colors of red, orange and yellow are visible in the rock, offset by the light green of the bush.

Juniper roots against lines of sandstone

Roots of a dead juniper tree rest in a small sand dune in Northern Arizona. in the background is a shaded cliff of many layers of sandstone creating parallel slanted lines.

Sandstone flake and wave of layers

A wave-like feature of sandstone layers in Northern Arizona. A large thin flake sticks out perpendicular to most of the layer, which run from top right to bottom left of the frame

Small Flash Flood in Northern Arizona Desert

Flash floods are usually thought of as huge, destructive forces, but this small river delivers precious water to plants and animals in the fragile desert ecosystem. A short rain storm sprinkled the desert and generated this small flood in the South Coyote Buttes area of Northern Arizona

Sunrise over white sandstone in Southern Utah desert scene

First light of sunrise on white sandstone domes and formations of Southern Utah near the Arizona border

Bright orange sandstone mixed with white layers at sunrise

First light of sunrise on orange sandstone and white layers mixed into swirls and waves of rock layers.

White and orange sandstone tower at sunrise

First light on a large circular tower of white and orange sandstone in the desert of Northern Arizona near the Utah border.

Miniature wave formation in sandstone of Arizona

A formation similar to the Wave of Coyote Buttes in Northern Arizona. Layers of orange rock have eroded into lines and waves with white sandstone formations behind it.

Pink and white sandstone layers

waves, stripes and lines of sandstone layers in white and pink. Several variations of direction and style interact in different layers

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Sandstone waves and tower in Northern Arizona

Orange and white sandstone layers interact in waves and stripes in the forground and a small cone shaped tower rises from the formation on the left. In the background is a large cliff of similar colors.

Sandstone Tower Formation

A formation of sandstone sits ten meters tall above sand and sagebrush of Northern Arizona on the Kaiparowits Plateau

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