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Image of the Day — Hoodoo in the Bisti Badlands

Posted: Monday, December 2, 2024

photograph
Image taken: 12/26/2020
by: Adam Read
© 2020

Longitude: -108.220396
Latitude: 36.268074
  (WGS 84 or NAD 83)

About this image

The hoodoos that are characteristic of the Bisti Badlands are eroded from sandstones of the Kirtland Formation. The softer white sandstones that form the stalks are often capped with the harder, more resistant brown sandstones of the Bisti Member of the Kirtland Formation.

Image posted: 02-08-2022