Wave Reflection

The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located near the Arizona-Utah border, on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes on the Colorado Plateau. The Wave... more

by Alan Kepler

Title

Wave Reflection

Artist

Alan Kepler

Medium

Photograph - Electronic Image

Description

The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located near the Arizona-Utah border, on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes on the Colorado Plateau. The Wave consists of intersecting U-shaped troughs that have been eroded into Navajo Sandstone of Jurassic age. The two major troughs, which comprise this rock formation, are 62 feet wide by 118 feet long and 7 feet wide by 52 feet long. Initially, infrequent runoff eroded these troughs along joints within the Navajo Sandstone. After their formation, the drainage basin, which fed rainwater to these troughs, shrank to the point that the runoff became insufficient to contribute to the cutting of these troughs. As a result, the troughs are now almost exclusively eroded by wind, as indicated by the orientation of erosional steps and risers cut into the sandstone along their steep walls. These erosional steps and risers are oriented relative to the predominant direction of the wind, as it is now naturally funneled into and through these troughs.

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June 20th, 2014