At Colorado National Monument, the Colorado River has, over time, carved the red sandstone of the Colorado Plateua into a grand landscape of canyons, cliffs, and towers. Ancient layers of pale orange and red sandstone have been scoured way by the river and it's tributaries. Where the rock was soft, great canyons were scooped out. When the river encountered a knot of harder rock it worked around it; whittling out great towering spires.
All images © John Donohue, 1995,1996 |
