Glass Mountain and Temple of the Sun and Moon - Capital Reef National Park

What kind of rock is that in the foreground. I'm no geologist, but I bet there's an intersting story there.

Nice!

Dann.

It's a chunk of pure calcite, uncovered by weathering (and probably rock hammers). I have seen alot of rock, but never any thing above ground quite like it. I have seen some even weirder calcite formations in caves, though....

Is it real? I will visit this place for sure!

Korolev Yura, greetings! This photo was taken in the Cathedral Valley area of Capital Reef National Park in south central Utah, USA. It is part of a physiographic region of the US known as the Colorado Plateau, and has many deep and spectacular canyons (like the Grand Canyon) and interesting rock formations. It is beautiful. You must come to visit!

Hello Eve Congratulation for your portfolio, you have amazing pictures! I want to take the time and see them all. You seem to like geology , I don't know if you know Canada , I think that you would enjoy a lot this place Burncoat Head Park I haven't put a lot of pictures of this place on Panoramio, but it is an amazing place! You can see there the highest recorded tides in the world Recordings indicated that the mean tidal range was 11.9 meters (40 ft.) but sometimes exceeded 18 meters (53 ft.) So you should see the shore it is amazing...

The Glass Mountain is made of gypsum crystals. There are a couple of other gypsum 'mountains' in the area but they are not in the park and have been damaged. All through the Capitol Reef area there are broken pieces of crystalline gypsum, often mistaken for broken glass by motorists.