The White Pocket is an isolated patch of sandstone hidden within the
desert expanse of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument near the
Arizona/Utah border in United State. This gnarled sandstone laid bare
right at the transition between the white and reddish orange sandstone.
It has twists, multi-color striations of white, yellow, red, orange, and
pink, pock marks and pools that sometimes fill with water, mushroom
like protrusions, strange bulges that look like brains, polygonal
fracturing, and wave-like features. The processes that have given yield
to these bizarre rock formations stump even expert geologists. Some
think that the area was liquefied in an ancient earthquake which
distorted the sandstone layers while they were still soft, before they
were buried under the oceans for 100 million years and turned to stone
under the enormous heat and pressure.
Source : dreamlandtours.net
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