Arches National Park

Arches National Park is located near Moab in eastern Utah of U.S.The area is 310 km2. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches. It includes the world-famous Delicate Arch and a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The park was designated as a national monument on April 12, 1929. It was redesignated as a national park on November 12, 1971.

 

The notable features of the Arches National Park include:

• Delicate Arch — a lone-standing arch which has become a symbol of Utah.
• Balanced Rock — a large balancing rock, the size of three school buses.
• Double Arch — two arches that share a common end.
• Landscape Arch — a very thin, very long arch over 300 feet (100 m); the largest in the park.
• Fiery Furnace — an area of maze-like narrow passages and tall rock columns (see biblical reference Fiery Furnace).
• Devil's Garden — with many arches and columns scattered along a ridge.
• Dark Angel — a free-standing column of dark stone at the end of the Devil's Garden trail.
• Courthouse Towers — a collection of tall stone columns.
• Petrified dunes — petrified remnants of sand dunes blown from the ancient lakes that covered the area.
• Wall Arch —located along the popular Devils Garden Trail. Collapsed sometime on August 4-5, 2008.

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Old Faithful Geyser of California

Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Take a look at the following public domain photos of Old Faithful. The geyser was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. The geyser, as well as the nearby Old Faithful Inn, is part of the Old Faithful Historic District.

Eruptions of the Old Faithful can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 U.S. gallons (14–32.000 litre) of boiling water to a height of 106–185 feet (30–56 m) lasting from 1.5 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet (44 m). The highest recorded eruption was 185 feet (56 m) high. Eruptions often occur about 90 minutes apart, but this interval can range from 45 to 125 minutes on occasion.

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Beautiful Alps

The Alps (German: Alpen; Italian: Alpi; French: Alpes; Romansh: Alps; Slovenian: Alpe) is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west. The word "Alps" was taken via French from Latin Alpes (meaning "the Alps"), which may be influenced by the Latin words albus (white) or altus (high) or more likely a Latin rendering of a Celtic or Ligurian original.


The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc, at 4,808 metres (15,774 ft), on the French-Italian border. All the main peaks of the Alps can be found in the list of mountains of the Alps and list of Alpine peaks by prominence. Wiki

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