This is a picture of me overlooking a valley and mountains while standing where ancient pueblo homes used to be. What a view, huh?
This site is called Wupatki and it was an apartment style housing unit that was home to many ancient Native Americans over 800 years ago. Many rooms were used for storage of food or trash. Some of the rooms were used for special ceremonies and some were for sleeping. The buildings are made out of sandstone. There is TONS of sandstone all around the Southwest and that is the red rock that you see in many of the pictures.
This is Sunset Crater Volcano. You will notice the dark dirt in the front of the picture, that is debris from a lava flow when the volcano erupted thousands of years ago. The volcano is not on a fault line (where two of Earth's plates meet or pull away) but on a hot spot (which is where magma is built up under the Earth's surface and rises up to form volcanoes and cause eruptions. I also saw many large volcanic rocks that were hardened lava.
This is a picture of me overlooking a valley and mountains while standing where ancient pueblo homes used to be. What a view, huh?
This site is called Wupatki and it was an apartment style housing unit that was home to many ancient Native Americans over 800 years ago. Many rooms were used for storage of food or trash. Some of the rooms were used for special ceremonies and some were for sleeping. The buildings are made out of sandstone. There is TONS of sandstone all around the Southwest and that is the red rock that you see in many of the pictures.
This is Sunset Crater Volcano. You will notice the dark dirt in the front of the picture, that is debris from a lava flow when the volcano erupted thousands of years ago. The volcano is not on a fault line (where two of Earth's plates meet or pull away) but on a hot spot (which is where magma is built up under the Earth's surface and rises up to form volcanoes and cause eruptions. I also saw many large volcanic rocks that were hardened lava.
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