Sculpture That Was Centuries in the Making 



At right: In the Bad Lands of South 

 Dakota the soft clayey sandstone 

 has been cut and carved by the 

 elements into many fanciful shapes 



The Major Domo, a remnant of a 

 bed of stratified rock which in the 

 upheaval of the Rocky Mountains 

 was actually turned on edge. Note 

 the human figures to which the 

 arrow points for height comparison 



The leaning pinnacle of the West 

 Elk Mountains in Colorado. The 

 surface is composed of a series 

 of pinnacles like the teeth of a 

 giant saw. It guards an impass- 

 able ravine of ungaged depth 



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Sentinel Rock, at the 

 mouth of Sentinel 

 Creek in Glen Canyon, 

 Utah. From one point 

 of view the rock is said 

 to resemble a woman 



