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   and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and   
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   captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The   
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    Dance Hall Rock and Tafoni   
      
      February 24, 2023   
      
       TomMc_EPOD.DancehallRockTom (004)   
      
       TomMc_EPOD.TafoniWithinTafoniDanceHallRock2022 (003)   
      
      Photographer:  Thomas McGuire   
      
      Summary Author:  Thomas McGuire   
      
      In 1879 a group of 236  Mormons answered the call to trek 200 miles   
      (320 km) from their homes in southwestern Utah eastward across   
      partially explored high desert to populate the  San Juan River   
      Valley. They had selected an unexplored “shortcut” to avoid an extra   
      hundred miles of travel.   
      
      This natural alcove (top photo), called  Dance Hall Rock, provided a   
      place for the travelers to rest and to re-purpose themselves as scouts   
      looking for a way to access the  Colorado River, more than 1,000   
      feet (305 m) down a sheer cliff. They found a cleft in the rock where   
      they had to chisel and dynamite an extremely steep and narrow ascent;   
      so steep that both wagons and horses had to be lowered separately on   
      ropes to the river below. After nearly a year of treacherous travel,   
      they arrived two persons stronger than they left with no fatalities and   
      two babies born along the journey.   
      
      The alcove probably resulted from a layer of resistant,  Jurassic   
      aged  Entrada sandstone, including many  tafoni (bottom photo),   
      overlying less resistant  sandstone layers that over time had been   
      hollowed out by wind and rain. Photos taken on May14, 2022   
      
      
      Dance Hall Rock, Utah Coordinates:  37.357151, -111.100474   
      
      
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