The Wave

The Wave is an extraordinary sandstone rock formation situated on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of northern Arizona. Dating back to the Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago, this intersecting U-shaped trough was formed by the erosion of Navajo sandstone dunes that compacted into undulating, calcified rock layers over eons.
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