Prayer flags in the Wild West
by 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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- Exact location (-109.4992 W, 38.4862 N)
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Canon IXUS 75
Taken in
April
2010
Submitted on 10 March 2011
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Heijn van Gent (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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