zion
- At December 23, 2008
- By artjom
- In general, landscapes, photography
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Zion’s towering sandstone monuments, dubbed “natural temples of God” by 19th-century Mormon pioneers, rise 3,000 feet (914 meters) above the Virgin River and the canyon floor.
Eons of erosion created Zion’s jaw-dropping landscape. A long-gone inland sea left behind huge deposits of porous sandstone like the one pictured here, and water, ice, and gravity have carved them for millions of years.
