Slot canyon

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Photographers in Antelope Canyon.

A slot canyon is a narrow canyon, formed by the wear of water rushing through sandstone. Occasionally, the only light entering the canyon is through very narrow openings at the top. Some measure only a foot or two across at the top but drop more than one hundred feet to the floor of the canyon.

In most slot canyons, the water and wind of 100–200 million years of windstorms and floods have cut the sandstone in such a way that its s can appear almost incandescent. From inside one can observe a wide array of colors as the light from above bounces back and forth across the walls.

The U.S. state of Utah has the largest concentration of slot canyons in the world.

List of slot canyons

• Antelope Canyon
• Buckskin Gulch
• Red Cave
• Butterfly Canyon
• Buttler Canyon
• Zebra Slot
• Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

External links

• [Zion National Park Slot Canyons]
• [Southern Utah's Slot Canyons]
• [Slot Canyons of the American Southwest]

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