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Morning at Zion
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Storm's a-comin'
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The upper reaches of Zion
Canyon, seen in the morning
light (with the benefit of some
HDR). Told you ...
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If you don't like the weather,
wait five minutes and it'll
change.
No, wait, that's
Melbourne.
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Hoover Dam
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The bathtub ring
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It's big. Really big. Really
really big. And it supplies
power and water to most of the
Southwest.
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Lake Mead is usually a lot
higher than this - usually it
runs right up to that ring.
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Flagstaff at night
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Meteor Crater
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The town of Flagstaff, seen at
night from the Lowell
Observatory.
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It's big. Real big. You probably
wouldn't have wanted to be
standing underneath this
one.
Daniel ...
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Hollow log
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Quartz
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That's not from the interior of
the rock being eroded - that's
from the tree being hollow when
it ...
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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Petrified wood is actually a
specialised form of quartz.
Silica deposits from volcanic
ash bild up ...
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Purty colours
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Freshly painted desert
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The Rainbow Forest section of
Petrified Forest National Park
has some of the most
spectactular ...
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They must've painted this bit
pretty recently.
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Puerco Pueblo
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Get your kicks on Route 66
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These ruins are all that's left
of a little 20-family community
that lived in the Petrified
Forest ...
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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Route 66 has long since been
superseded by Interstate 40.
Some parts are still preserved,
but some - ...
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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As far as the eye can see
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Painted Desert Inn
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The Painted Desert is all made
up of weathered sandstone - part
of the same huge sandstone
formation ...
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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This inn - now owned by the
National Parks service - was
built in the late 30s as a rest
stop on ...
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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Painted Desert: Hills
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Jemez River
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Some hills in the Petrified
Forest part of Arizona's Painted
Desert.
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Uploaded on Oct 18, 2009
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The Jemez River keeps these
cottonwoods alive and healthy -
a hundred metres away from the
river up ...
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Uploaded on Oct 17, 2009
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Autumn colours
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Jemez Valley cottonwoods
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The Northeast isn't the only
part of America that gets a
spectacular display of colours
in autumn.
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Cottonwood trees grow rampant
along most of the rivers in the
southwest. It's a little odd to
see ...
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