Erosion Spider
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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Winner in the EGU Photo Competition 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: John Clemens (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
7.6 MB
Aspect
456:257
Width
3648 px
Height
2056 px
Brand
Fujifilm
Model
FinePix HS10 HS11
Exposure
23 mm f/4.5 1/220 s ISO 400
Coordinates
36.0927, -112.0472
Tint
Grayish green
Submitted
5 February 2014
Taken
8 April 2013
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