High Desert Arroyo and Hoodoos
Artwork ID # 2306-36727-5
These ornately sculpted sandstones in New Mexico's Bisti Badlands are weathering into a field of hoodoos, overlain in the background by dark-colored overbank mudstones and coal. This landscape is, in essence, a depiction of " deep time ". It describes evidence of a Cretaceous Era river delta on the western edge of the Western Interior Seaway, which once split what is now North America into two separate landmasses.
New MexicoBisti Wilderness AreaBureau of Land ManagementTrails of the Ancients BywaydinosaursKT boundryextinction eventSan Juan Basinscenicbadlandsmudstoneclaypetrified woodvolcanic clinkerslimestonehoodooshigh desertarchesravinesgulliesdry washsilt ligniteerosionmysteriousChacoan cultureOjo Alamo formationFruitland formationarroyo
From Wilderness Series Archive - "An ARCHIVE of every WILDERNESS SERIES image"
