Horse Rider at John Fords Point, Merrick Butte, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA

Lone Horse Rider at John Fords Point, Merrick Butte, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA... more

by Neale And Judith Clark

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Horse Rider at John Fords Point, Merrick Butte, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA

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Neale And Judith Clark

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Photograph - Photography

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Lone Horse Rider at John Fords Point, Merrick Butte, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, USA

Iconic Navajo man in a red shirt and cowboy hat rides a horse to John Ford's Point, or Monument Valley, Apache scout

Monument Valley is officially a large area that includes much of the area surrounding Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, a Navajo Nation equivalent to a national park. The area is part of the Colorado Plateau. The elevation of the valley floor ranges from 5,000 to 6,000 feet (1,500 to 1,800 m) above sea level. The floor is largely siltstone of the Cutler Group, or sand derived from it, deposited by the meandering rivers that carved the valley. The valley's vivid red color comes from iron oxide exposed in the weathered siltstone. The darker, blue-gray rocks in the valley get their color from manganese oxide.

The buttes are clearly stratified, with three principal layers. The lowest layer is the Organ Rock Shale, the middle is de Chelly Sandstone, and the top layer is the Moenkopi Formation capped by Shinarump Conglomerate.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Director John Ford used the location for a number of his best-known films and thus, in the words of critic Keith Phipps, "its five square miles [13 square kilometers] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West."

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December 28th, 2020