Prayer flags in the Wild West
Heijn van Gent
Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geomechanics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
During a field trip in the vicinity of Moab, we found quite unexpectedly a row of Buddhist prayer flags, hanging from a block of stratified sandstones. This image is taken looking towards the Abajo Mountains in the South, with in the 'mid-ground' several exposed sandstone fins can be seen.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Heijn van Gent (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
2.1 MB
Aspect
57:32
Width
3648 px
Height
2048 px
Brand
Canon
Model
IXUS 75
Exposure
6 mm f/8 1/320 s ISO 80
Coordinates
38.4862, -109.4992
Tint
Light blue
Submitted
10 March 2011
Taken
April 2010
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