"Where in North America?" -- Section I

[glc]

Top one is the Lone Cypress on the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach.

[Kestrel]

Looks like some of the ruins at Hovenweep National Monument? I researched going but never made it.

Yes, the photo is from Hovenweep National Monument.

[Mark Sedenquist]

The first tree is near Carmel, California on the Monterey Bay. Beautiful photos!

(urg: I stand corrected -- it is on the Pebble Beach drive....)

Mark

[Eris]

Yes the first tree is the Lone Cypress Tree near Carmel.

It is the official symbol of Pebble Beach (golf course, gated community etc) on 17 Mile Drive. Looking at the real estate around there would say you need serious money to take up residence.

Hence my corny reference to Clint Eastwood, a past mayor of Carmel.

There is still pic 2

This place (nearby community) is named after an early postmistress.

Of added interest, maybe to some, my wife was told by a local that the location under this tree was used as a setting by Elvis for one of his songs /films. However, not be able to find any evidence to support this.

[Kestrel]

Where is this?

[Eris]

Sedona is the tree location.

Named after Sedona Miller Schnebly the wife of the city's first postmaster.

To the east of Sedona is Schnebly Hill Road, a roughish dirt road, which gives access to beautiful panorama views of the red rocks and countryside from the rim at the top of the road where this tree is situated.

If you don’t have a suitable vehicle ( high clearance) then there is the option of a number of jeep trips.

Wonderful scenery.

{Excellent job -- I've never seen that spot --- Mark}

[Mark Sedenquist]

Where is this?

The river sorta throws me, but it looks a little like the Colorado Monument in Colorado.

Mark

[Foy]

The river sorta throws me, but it looks a little like the Colorado Monument in Colorado.

Mark

I dunno, Mark, the Colorado NM "drive through" I did some 15 years ago had the River well away from the bluffs, etc. Seems as though the river lies well north of the bluffs, across the irrigated orchard- and vinyard-dotted floodplain.

I'm going with the Missouri Breaks in Montana for the photo. Never been there, but the rocks look correct.

Foy

[Kestrel]

I dunno, Mark, the Colorado NM "drive through" I did some 15 years ago had the River well away from the bluffs, etc. Seems as though the river lies well north of the bluffs, across the irrigated orchard- and vinyard-dotted floodplain.

I'm going with the Missouri Breaks in Montana for the photo. Never been there, but the rocks look correct.

Foy

The rocks in the Missouri Breaks were formed during the Cretaceous era. the The cliffs in the photo are in far older sandstone from the Pennsylvanian era.

Colorado National Monument does not have rocks from the Pennsylvanian era. Or a river as you pointed out earlier.

Most people associate this place with the Jurassic era.

[Foy]

The rocks in the Missouri Breaks were formed during the Cretaceous era. the The cliffs in the photo are in far older sandstone from the Pennsylvanian era.

Colorado National Monument does not have rocks from the Pennsylvanian era. Or a river as you pointed out earlier.

Most people associate this place with the Jurassic era.

I haven't tried to look up the stratigraphic section for NW Colorado-NE Utah, but the thinly-veiled hint regarding "Jurassic" leads me to guess it's the Dinosaur National Monument (Nat Park?), which I think makes the river the Yampa, or is it the Green? I'm eating lunch with one hand and typing with the other, while clients wait for me up front, so I can't do any of my own homework at the moment.

Funny, both AZBuck and myself, present and former professional geologists, respectively, did a "drive by" under Kestrel's bio in order to find out just who this new geologist in the forum might be.

Cool stuff, Kestrel. I like it.

Foy