Erosion Spider
by John Clemens
Toward the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, lies the Middle Cambrian Bright Angel Shale, a variably coloured sequence of relatively soft sedimentary rocks, here sculpted by erosion into a spider-like outcrop decorated with small green desert shrubs.
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- North America (751)
- Northern America (588)
- United States of America (391)
- Exact location (-112.0472 W, 36.0927 N)
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Taken on 8
April
2013
Submitted on 5 February 2014
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John Clemens (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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