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Hoodoo comes from a Southern Paiute word, oo’doo, which refers to a thing that is scary or inspires fear. [1] [2] Hoodos form part of some legends of Native Americans in the American Southwest. For example, hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park were considered petrified remains of ancient beings who had been sanctioned for misbehavior. [3]
Massive stone columns, or hoodoos, blanket the area and are the result of hundreds of thousands of years of weathering and erosion. The hoodoos originated from a thick deposit of tuff laid down by the Turkey Creek Caldera. As the tuff cooled, it contracted and formed joints.
The area became part of the western side of the San Juan Basin which formed during the Laramide orogeny and tilted the beds to their present 5-degree angle to the northeast. [7] The badlands themselves formed quite recently, between 2800 and 5600 thousand years ago. [8] Hoodoos formed where resistant rock protected underlying pinnacles of ...
The uplift caused the formation of vertical joints which were later preferentially eroded to form the free-standing pinnacles called hoodoos, badlands, and monoliths we see today. The formations exposed in the area of the park are part of the Grand Staircase .
The hoodoo formation had existed for many millions of years, having formed out of rock that dated back as far as 165 million years. [3] [11] The average rate of erosion of a hoodoo is approximately 2–4 feet (0.6-1.3 m) every 100 years. [12]
[7] [8] The Straight Cliffs Formation of the Kaiparowits Plateau to the west of the Devils Garden were formed during the more recent Cretaceous period. [21] Paleontologists are interested in the area because the rock formations were deposited when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Many dinosaur fossils and tracks have been discovered by ...
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is located in San Juan County, New Mexico, between Chaco Canyon and the De-Na-Zin Wilderness.Its name is a phonetic transliteration of Navajo "áshįįh łibá" meaning "salt, it is grey (grey salt)".
Hoodoo Mountain, sometimes referred to as Hoodoo Volcano, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is located 25 kilometres (16 miles) northeast of the Alaska –British Columbia border on the north side of the Iskut River opposite of the mouth of the Craig River .