We went to Monument Valley today, located in a Navajo Reservation in Arizona (just over the border from Utah). The valley features large sandstone formations and we learned the difference between mesas, buttes, and spires. In a nutshell, a mesa is a large, flat topped sandstone hill or mountain, a butte is an eroded mesa, …
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