More rocks. Can you bear it?

[Peregrinopaul]

I passed through Nájera today. To quote John Lennon, “ I just had to look”.

As you probably know, the red sandstone cliffs run right alongside the houses.


Definitely unusual. These red beds underly the whole area from near Navarette almost all the way to Santo Domingo. They are more than a kilometre thick. The humps sticking up around Nájera are remnants after the rivers have excavated a considerable volume from the top layers of the formation and dumped it in the Mediterranean via the Ebro. Come back in maybe half a million years and they’ll be gone.

 

[CWBuff]

When I saw them it reminded me of Sedona, AZ. I enjoyed the view very much.... but I don't think I'll come back in a 1/2-million years

 

[henrythedog]

After a passably successful career as a generalist I stand in awe of someone who actually knows what he’s talking about, they are surprisingly few and far between.

Keep the rocks coming.

 

[mspath]

I passed through Nájera today. To quote John Lennon, “ I just had to look”.
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As you probably know, the red sandstone cliffs run right alongside the houses.

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Definitely unusual. These red beds underlying the whole area from near Navarette almost all the way to Santo Domingo. They are more than a kilometre thick. The humps sticking up around Nájera are remnants after the rivers have excavated a considerable volume from the top layers of the formation and dumped it in the Mediterranean via the Ebro. Come back in maybe half a million years and they’ll be gone.

Paul,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and photos. Spanning the Nájerilla river Nájera does indeed have a remarkable site beneath/beside those high red sandstone cliffs; According to Wikipedia "place between the rocks" is the Arabic name.
What will you show us next?

 

[Peregrinopaul]

When I saw them it reminded me of Sedona, AZ. I enjoyed the view very much.... but I don't think I'll come back in a 1/2-million years

I googled it and found that as usual the US always has bragging rights for all things geological! Mind you, in my backyard (by Australian standards) we have this in Karijini National Park.
(Not my photo: WA Tourist Commission.) The rocks are about 2.5 billion years older than Najera (just sayin’) I have written elsewhere that some of the Ebro Basin sediments are so recent geologically that they might as well have been trucked in.

 

[CWBuff]

Well... talking about 'all things geological' - it is only a skip and a hop from Sedona to The Grand Canyon and if DO want "things geological" boy-oh-boy!!!!!

 

[Aussiewanderer]

I passed through Nájera today. To quote John Lennon, “ I just had to look”.
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As you probably know, the red sandstone cliffs run right alongside the houses.

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Definitely unusual. These red beds underly the whole area from near Navarette almost all the way to Santo Domingo. They are more than a kilometre thick. The humps sticking up around Nájera are remnants after the rivers have excavated a considerable volume from the top layers of the formation and dumped it in the Mediterranean via the Ebro. Come back in maybe half a million years and they’ll be gone.

This had to be my absolutely favorite little town on the CF. I could live there truly. So beautiful. The river. The duck weed. The ducks. The old men holding onto branches while skinny dipping in the river . The other old men gathering to count the ducks. . Priceless. Thank you for the memories

 

[Pilgrim9]

I passed through Nájera today. To quote John Lennon, “ I just had to look”.
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As you probably know, the red sandstone cliffs run right alongside the houses.

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Definitely unusual. These red beds underly the whole area from near Navarette almost all the way to Santo Domingo. They are more than a kilometre thick. The humps sticking up around Nájera are remnants after the rivers have excavated a considerable volume from the top layers of the formation and dumped it in the Mediterranean via the Ebro. Come back in maybe half a million years and they’ll be gone.

Thank you for this different perspective and the good photos.

I have passed through Nájera twice and stayed there overnight once, but never gave a thought to the geology. I must learn to look upwards and ponder things more often.

Note to self: Add a Google Calendar reminder for June of 502,024 to check out the evolution of the geology there during my 124,998th CF that year

NTS #2: And buy new boots.

 

[ShoshTrvls]

Much of Southern Utah looks like this. And when it is gone, this is what remains:

 

[CWBuff]

Much of Southern Utah looks like this. And when it is gone, this is what remains:

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A skateboard in the sand dunes?

 

[ShoshTrvls]

A skateboard in the sand dunes?

A sandboard, more like a snowboard. You climb the dunes and board down them. (You can see some tracks in the dune in the photo).

 

[CWBuff]

Of course!!!

 

[VNwalking]

More rocks. Can you bear it?​

Uh-huh. You betcha.

Keep the rocks coming.

Second this!

Wonderful to know the story behind the landscape.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

When I mentioned alabaster in another thread referring to an exposure near Los Arcos, @VNwalking told me that some of the windows of the church at Grañon are alabaster instead of glass. So (once again) I just had to look!



The window over the main entrance is particularly nice. The thin alabaster appears to be stained with iron oxide and gives a wonderful orange glow in the interior.

 

[David Tallan]

When I mentioned alabaster in another thread referring to an exposure near Los Arcos, @VNwalking told me that some of the windows of the church at Grañon are alabaster instead of glass. So (once again) I just had to look!

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The window over the main entrance is particularly nice. The thin alabaster appears to be stained with iron oxide and gives a wonderful orange glow in the interior.
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If I remember correctly (it was 8 years ago) the church in Eunate also has alabaster windows.