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Bryce Canyon NP

Location
Bryce Canyon is a small national park in southwestern Utah, it was proclaimed in 1928. Named after the Mormon Pioneer Ebenezer Bryce.

Geology
Bryce is famous for its worldly unique geology, consisting of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos."
Bryce Canyon is not a "real" canyon. It is not carved by flowing water. Water is the active ingredient here, but what is does is "frost-wedging" and chemical weathering.
For 200 days a year the temperature goes above and below freezing every day. During the day, melt water seeps into fractures only to freeze at night, expanding by 9%. Now as ice, it exerts a tremendous force (2,000-20,000 pounds per square inch). Over time this "frost-wedging" shatters and pries rock apart. In addition, rain water, which is naturally acidic, slowly dissolves the limestone, rounding off edges and washing away debris.
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