tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post4863600516014972882..comments2024-02-08T03:19:48.451-07:00Comments on Box Canyon Blog.com: Seams Like Only Yesterday (edited)Box Canyon Blog.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07032055509766739436noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-17722501146732678432013-02-01T07:59:42.353-07:002013-02-01T07:59:42.353-07:00Thanks OFM!
markThanks OFM!<br />markBox Canyon Blog.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032055509766739436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-75774511950584812472013-02-01T07:23:35.490-07:002013-02-01T07:23:35.490-07:00http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/roswel...http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/roswell/valley_of_fires.html<br />Barney, The Old Fat Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14242837062100545160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-61810363268181759822013-01-29T17:32:24.189-07:002013-01-29T17:32:24.189-07:00John and Pam
Great... You will love Zion
Email me ...John and Pam<br />Great... You will love Zion<br />Email me at mej4@mac.com<br />Thanks!!!<br />Box Canyon Blog.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032055509766739436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-23553275737764774112013-01-29T09:52:49.982-07:002013-01-29T09:52:49.982-07:00Just finished reading your entire month in Zion. ...Just finished reading your entire month in Zion. Oh, my, amazing! We should land there somewhere early April. I will then reread each hike. The Subway hike was breath taking but I had my heart in my throat at times. Guess we need to get a pole! Thanks so much for the beautiful words and photos...what fun I had following.<br /><br />I must be a little dense but I can't find an email address for you so I can get some inside info on off beat trails in Valley of Fire...help!<br /><br />So glad we found your blog which was suggested by Metamorphosis. check us out, as well!John and Pam Wrighthttp://ohtheplacestheygo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-37672738233129257952013-01-28T08:28:19.048-07:002013-01-28T08:28:19.048-07:00John/Pam,
I think we are getting closer to an expl...John/Pam,<br />I think we are getting closer to an explanation, thanks to reader knowledge, involvement, research. :)) Maybe you will be able to explain it to the Rangers in V of F. Thanks for chiming in :)<br /><br />Kib Explorer,<br />Just when I'm about ready to throw my "pen" into a deep dark canyon and embrace anonymity, a comment like yours comes along and sets things right again. Deepest thanks. I wish you well on your "Journey," and look forward to following along :)0<br /><br />Moderate,<br />Thanks for commenting on the BCB! The answer seems to be blowing in the wind... :)<br /><br />Steve and Joan,<br />I feel the same way about flowers... I don't have to know their names to enjoy them :) Besides, Bobbie is the resident "flowerologist." thanks.<br /><br />Meow Momma,<br />I could not for the life of me bring up the proper name for that hair stiffening crap... I knew it was "Butch" something. So thank you. Now I'll have to re-edit the post :)) Gee, readers are full of trivia :))<br /><br />Susan Wiseone,<br />Now I'm really confused :(( Sheesh!<br /><br />Gaelyn,<br />I think you are on the trail to truth! Thank you! <br />I bet you are getting excited about your African Safari!!! Have a great trip. <br /><br />Readers: To follow along with Gaelyn, click her name here or in my side bar links.<br /><br />Travel Bug,<br />Thank you! I try to be aware of composition in most of my photos. Proper composition keeps the eye moving like a good painting does. <br />I too, see things in the rocks :))<br /><br />Spotted Dog,<br />Thanks! I like that word, orogeny :))<br /><br />Pam and Wayne,<br />Oh boy... here comes the puns :))<br /><br />Geo and Suz<br />Yep... like I said...<br /><br />Chef Ted,<br />Thanks for going to the trouble to consult a specialists :) This really put it in terms I could understand! <br />Box Canyon Blog.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032055509766739436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-14813565458849476242013-01-28T07:42:43.380-07:002013-01-28T07:42:43.380-07:00I received this Email from reader Chef Ted...
Hi...I received this Email from reader Chef Ted...<br /><br /><br />Hi Mark,<br />I used to embarrass my kids by hugging particular desirable volcanic conglomerate on the Appalachian Trail, to their now twenty something 's enduring horror. I saw those "seams" and thought to my self that they were probably cracks made by tectonic shifts over the eons. As it rained for millions of years, mineral solution, hardened in the cracks forming a harder rock, that doesn't erode as quickly as the sandstone...so I contacted a geologist in the area..gotta love the internet for research...if I had to have gone to a library, well I didn't want to know that bad!<br /> <br />http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr/students/valley-of-fire/project.htm<br /><br /><br />Rodger,<br />an online blogger has a question about the "seams" in the sandstone, that don't erode our as quickly as the sandstone.<br />[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_ZRKXE2rfb4/UQPoE1k693I/AAAAAAAAJCc/bd5eVNHbFR8/s640/IMG_9818.JPG]<br /><br />I am assuming your explanation here would explain them?<br /><br />"Chemical action has added soluble materials - lime and silica – to the groundwater. Moving through the joints and fault surfaces of Aztec sandstone, these chemicals occasionally find an environment for precipitation. The joints are sometimes filled these chemicals. After precipitation the newly formed minerals calcite or quartz, often harder than the surrounding sandstone, are left standing as narrow ridges after the sandstone has eroded away. Where blocks have sheared off, the vertical joints thus exposed are often veneered with the white mineral deposits."<br /><br />Thanks in advance,<br />amateur geologist Ted<br /><br /><br />From: wellerr@cochise.edu<br />To: Cheftedcatering@aol.com<br />Sent: 1/27/2013 8:00:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time<br />Subj: RE: Vally of Fire question<br /> <br />Ted,<br />I would suspect that the resistant material is quartz, not calcite. Calcite is more vulnerable to weathering. The sandstone is made of quartz grains either cemented by calcite or quartz. If cemented by calcite, the sandstone would weather away much faster than the solid quartz joint fillings, leaving the flat sheets..<br /><br />Roger Weller<br />Box Canyon Blog.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07032055509766739436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-73480368673696585832013-01-28T05:26:03.325-07:002013-01-28T05:26:03.325-07:00Great pictures thats "seam" to show a lo...Great pictures thats "seam" to show a lot of interesting views. Thanks for sharing.our awesome travelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13031755671050584629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-71999885861288795322013-01-27T21:04:11.465-07:002013-01-27T21:04:11.465-07:00Valley of Fire "seams" lovely!Valley of Fire "seams" lovely!Pam https://www.blogger.com/profile/05979446142128610261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-87590141961150625302013-01-27T19:36:56.838-07:002013-01-27T19:36:56.838-07:00Sedimentary layers of Aztec Sandstone Fm., and upt...Sedimentary layers of Aztec Sandstone Fm., and upturned from some orogony - my guess is the Sevier.<br /><br />More great photos!Spotted Dog Ranch:https://www.blogger.com/profile/15734250215386335527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-24506874997256921262013-01-27T18:50:12.536-07:002013-01-27T18:50:12.536-07:00Your photos are exceptional with color, patterns, ...Your photos are exceptional with color, patterns, texture and good composition. <br /><br />In one photo, it looked like a profile of a head of someone laying down on top of the rocks.TravelBug-Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01974719934652737928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-87035049300434914592013-01-27T18:18:34.015-07:002013-01-27T18:18:34.015-07:00Ancient sand dunes deposited with various mixed mi...Ancient sand dunes deposited with various mixed minerals for color leaving behind angled bedding planes that change due to shifting winds. This followed by lithification, pressured into rock, with some cracking where liquid mixed with quartz also lithified and it's harder rock than sandstone so doesn't erode as quickly.<br /><br />Pretend I didn't just type that. Gaelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784162697113288888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-25158587695773100922013-01-27T17:54:18.616-07:002013-01-27T17:54:18.616-07:00Susan here. Okay. We did ask the ranger. And it...Susan here. Okay. We did ask the ranger. And it's complicated. The colored layers came first. One color on top of the other. Second, they were compacted; but NOT necessarily at the color line. So the 'horizontal' lines are the compaction layers. Problem is that this second step isn't always horizontal. Then third, the whole dern thing cracks and lets in a harder goop that fills the cracks. So since sandstone erodes at a faster rate than the harder goop, fins are left sticking out of rock that has layers but not necessarily layers of color. Isn't that easily understandable? Maikel will have a mock-up prepared when we see you next, okaY?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-36775520896693688492013-01-27T13:50:58.961-07:002013-01-27T13:50:58.961-07:00I'm with Steve and Joan and only can add my be...I'm with Steve and Joan and only can add my belief that God is magical.<br /><br />I can however offer this. As the daughter of a long past lifelong barber, I grew up sitting in the shop reading tossed away comic books waiting for school to begin. Why am I telling you this? It was called "butch wax"! YW!! lolmeowmommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01209824648988317879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-15324003049735201002013-01-27T11:06:25.401-07:002013-01-27T11:06:25.401-07:00I don't have any idea of the how or why. I jus...I don't have any idea of the how or why. I just know I never get tired of looking at them. Beautiful pictures!Steve and Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927370922980855949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-21339317928010511852013-01-27T09:58:08.270-07:002013-01-27T09:58:08.270-07:00It appears, since both rock formations are sedimen...It appears, since both rock formations are sedimentary, that the wide sandstone layers are the result of wind piling sand into dunes. Then, intermittently, the land may have been covered by narrow seas or lakes...hence the flat incursions if they are of limestone composition. Just my thoughts. Great pictures, by the way! Thank you.Chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17843721782049160584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-4726794977810758012013-01-27T09:31:44.819-07:002013-01-27T09:31:44.819-07:00I must say, I so enjoy your blog. It is as if I a...I must say, I so enjoy your blog. It is as if I am on two journeys one of words the other a delightful vision. They don't always seem to relate but then in one magical moment they come together as if they were always meant to be united. Bravo! klbexploreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13294131539793643894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134981800236544647.post-30376906181131256592013-01-27T09:05:16.462-07:002013-01-27T09:05:16.462-07:00With each picture my excitement to experience this...With each picture my excitement to experience this beautiful park grows. So glad we changed our plans so we won't miss this beauty. <br /><br />I will have to find out more about the seams when I get there. Maybe I'll have an answer for you on our blog in mid Feb!<br /><br />Really enjoyed the amazing photos and creative text.John and Pam Wrighthttp://ohtheplacestheygo.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com