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This formation is up to 100 feet (30 m) thick in the Bryce Canyon area, but other parts of the Kaiparowits in the region are several hundreds of feet (tens of meters) thick. [7] Two formations, the Canaan Peak and the Pine Hollow , sit on top of the Kaiparowits elsewhere in the region but are absent in the Bryce Canyon area.
Hoodoo comes from a Southern Paiute word, oo’doo, which refers to a thing that is scary or inspires fear. [1] [2] Hoodos form part of some legends of Native Americans in the American Southwest. For example, hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park were considered petrified remains of ancient beings who had been sanctioned for misbehavior. [3]
The park is located in southwestern Utah about 50 miles (80 km) northeast of and 1,000 feet (300 m) higher than Zion National Park. [6] [7]Bryce Canyon National Park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau west of Paunsaugunt Faults (Paunsaugunt is Paiute for "home of the beaver"). [8]
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One of the many hoodoo formations in the section of the Pink Cliffs that are located within Bryce Canyon National Park, July 2007. The cliffs form a large number of unique rock formations, many of which are protected by either the Bryce Canyon National Park or the Cedar Breaks National Monument.
Thousands of pounds of rock peeled off a canyon wall in southern Utah and landed on one of the nation’s most iconic trails in Bryce Canyon National Park.. It happened around Dec. 8 on the Two ...
Goblin Valley State Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, also in Utah about 190 miles (310 km) to the southwest, contain some of the largest occurrences of hoodoos in the world. The park lies within the San Rafael Desert on the southeastern edge of the San Rafael Swell , north of the Henry Mountains .
In fact, the youngest formation seen in the Zion and Kolob area is the oldest exposed formation in Bryce Canyon—the Dakota Sandstone. In the Permian period, the Zion and Kolob area was a relatively flat basin near sea level on the western margin of the supercontinent Pangaea . [ 3 ]