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The racial makeup of the town was 94.5% White, 0.2% Black or African American, 1.2% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 2.6% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. 5.0% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
He built the fort to protect the local miners and water supply from the raids of the Yavapai (Mohave-Apache), a Native-American tribe. The area in which Fort Tyson was located has been known as Fort Tyson, Tyson’s Well and is now called the town of Quartzsite because of the large amount of quartz found in its surrounding areas.
Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.
What is petrified wood? The trees in Petrified Forest once were wood but now are are completely crystallized and mostly made of quartz. Millions of years ago, the logs were buried by sediment and ash.
"Gold Atlas of Quartzsite, Arizona Volume 2 Southern Dome Rock Mountains"; by: Dr. Erik Melchiorre; ISBN 978-0981763149. "Arizona – Quartzsite Area: Things you may NOT have seen in and around Quartzsite, AZ."; by Joe Lange (Author, Photographer) and Dorothy "Tootie" Jacobs (Contributor); Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN 978-1450541312.
The Aztec Sandstone is made up of two units. The lower resistant sandstone unit (100 metres (330 ft) thick) is tan to off-white in outcrops but pinkish in fresh exposures. Cross-bedded lenses can easily be observed. Frosted and pitted quartz grains well-cemented by silica are described by Evans in 1958 and 1971.
Glaciation of the southern hemisphere raised and lowered sea levels in Arizona, creating the ledge and slope topography common in the Grand Canyon, Sedona and Monument Valley, with alternating layers of siltstone, limestone, sandstone, dolomite and shale. The Kaibab Limestone is a famous formation from this time, covering much of northern ...
Almost 12 years ago, a pilot flying a small plane over the desert in Arizona spotted something she would never forget. Pez Owen told NPR that when she noticed white crosses on the ground, she and ...