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Red Rock Canyon (Calico Basin) - Nevada / USA

I was waiting for this opportunity three years and made sure I'm sitting on the right side of the airplane.
Best view in high resolution!

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Hope makes all things work,
Love makes all things beautiful,
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On May 18th, 1980 the eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state disrupted the lives of thousands and changed more than 200 square miles of rich forest into a grey, lifeless landscape. Now, more than twenty-six years later, the land around the mountain is slowly healing. Nature may be covering the scars of the 1980 eruption, but many people will never forget what happened that spring day.

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The Red Rock Canyon (Nevada / USA) is a little known, less travelled national park with unforgettable, majestic views.

The Canyon area was located under a deep ocean basin during the Paleozoic Era 600 million years ago. Around the Mesozoic Era 250 million years ago, the earth's crust started to rise due to tectonic shifts, forcing the water out and leaving behind evaporite formations of salt and gypsum. Exposure of the former sea bed allowed some of the rocks to oxidize (literally rust) and formed the area's characteristic red and orange rock layers.

Eventually a lush plain with streams and trees developed in the area. Some of these trees were covered with mud from the streams and eventually became petrified wood. Many of these fossilized logs can still be found today at the base of the Wilson Cliffs. By 180 million years ago, the climate continued to change and the area became a desert featuring vast expanses of huge shifting sand dunes. These dunes would pile up and were lithified, and are now called Aztec Sandstone. (Wiki)

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If you're in Las Vegas a trip to the Red Rock Canyon is a must! It's only 20 miles from the city.
Be prepared though...it's the desert - hot hot hot! Thanks for stopping by... :)

(poor quality but worth to share it because of mother nature's beauty)