Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Nation's tribal lands in Page, Arizona
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Contributor:
Brenda Kean / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2D38C3MFile size:
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4000 x 3000 px | 33.9 x 25.4 cm | 13.3 x 10 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
4 July 2011Location:
Page Arizona USAMore information:
Antelope Canyon was formed by erosion of Navajo Sandstone, primarily due to flash flooding and secondarily due to other sub-aerial processes. Rainwater, especially during monsoon season, runs into the extensive basin above the slot canyon sections, picking up speed and sand as it rushes into the narrow passageways. Over time the passageways are eroded away, making the corridors deeper and smoothing hard edges in such a way as to form characteristic 'flowing' shapes in the rock. Flooding in the canyon still occurs. It has been accessible by permit only since 1997, when the Navajo Tribe made it a Navajo Tribal Park. Upper Antelope Canyon, called Tse bighanilini, "the place where water runs through rocks" by the Navajo