Valley monument

Monument Valley is located in the south of the Utah and with the north of the Arizona. The site belongs to a reserve of the Indians Navajo and Plateau of Colorado. The city nearest is Goulding. The geographical coordinates of the site are 36°58.57362 ′ NR 110°5.51604 ′ W. Navajos name the place Tsé Bii' Ndzisgaii , the valley of the rocks. The bright colors of the rock (of the massive sandstone) come from manganese and iron oxide. The hillocks consist of three principal layers:

Schist Organ Rock'n'roll in bottom,
Sandstone De Chelly in the medium,
Moenkopi Schist and silt Shinarump in top.

Geology

The area of Valley Monument belongs to the Plateau of Colorado. The landscape is typical structures aclinales: an eroded plate where do not remain that ridges S pilot. There are the twin rocks called " The Mittens" and also the " Totem Pole" (a finger pointing towards the sky)

Valley monument with the cinema, on television and in the video game

the fantastic Ride of John Ford with John Wayne contributed to make the site popular. The realizer used the landscape in other westerns such as the Captive one of the desert. There exists a point of view baptized " John Ford Point."
the silhouette of the hillocks was used as emblem with the mark of cigarette Marlboro in the years 1950.
It was once in the West of Sergio Leone watch two turned scenes with Monument Valley.
2001, the odyssey of space of Stanley Kubrick.
the Sanction of Clint Eastwood.
the series of the years 1980 Supercopter renames it " valley of the dieux".
Indiana Jones and the last Crusade of Steven Spielberg
Retour towards future III
Forrest Gump
Vertical Limit of Martin Campbell
MotorStorm of Evolution Studios
Let us remain grouped of Jean-Paul Salome

Visit

Monument Valley is visited in the car. One saunters in a stony way with his own vehicle, provided that the low-of-case is sufficiently high, or with Amerindian guides. Indeed, this park is with the right in the middle of the reserve Navajo, it are thus them which collect the import duties (not-included in the Step of the US National parks).

It is also possible to visit this site with horse with an Amerindian guide.

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