Monument Valley buttes is a painting by Elise Palmigiani which was uploaded on November 16th, 2020.
Monument Valley buttes
Monument Valley is located in the heart of the Navajo Nation, on the border between Arizona and Utah, not far from the Four Corners National... more
Title
Monument Valley buttes
Artist
Elise Palmigiani
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Monument Valley is located in the heart of the Navajo Nation, on the border between Arizona and Utah, not far from the Four Corners National Monument.
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
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November 16th, 2020
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Comments (3)
Janet Marie
Congratulations, for the Homepage Feature, in the Art Group, "BEAUTY OF ARIZONA," for the week of Friday, (12/04/20)! You are welcome to submit your featured artwork in the Group's discussion thread “2020 Thanks and Features Archive October-December." Thank you for sharing your artwork and being a member of the group. like/fave
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