Monument Valley's Hollywood Skyline
Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border is one of the most filmed landscapes in the world, its distinctive red sandstone buttes having appeared in dozens of Western films directed by John Ford and in countless advertisements, album covers, and photographs. The valley is part of the Navajo Nation and is managed by the Navajo as a tribal park. The formations, called the Mittens, Merrick Butte, and others, are the eroded remnants of a plateau that was once continuous. They stand because they are capped by harder rock that protected the sandstone underneath from erosion while the surrounding plateau wore away.
Source: Wikipedia
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