Delicate Arch Bryce Canyon
by Bruce Bley
Title
Delicate Arch Bryce Canyon
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This photograph of the Delicate Arch was taken on a recent trip to Arches National Park in southern Utah.
Delicate Arch is a 65-foot (20 m) tall freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, United States.[1] It is the most widely-recognized landmark in Arches National Park and is depicted on Utah license plates and on a postage stamp commemorating Utah's centennial anniversary of statehood in 1996. The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.[2]
Because of its distinctive shape, the arch was known as "the Chaps" and "the Schoolmarm's Bloomers" by local cowboys[citation needed]. It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933�1934. (The story that the names of Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch were inadvertently exchanged due to a signage mixup by the National Park Service is false.[3])
This arch played no part in the original designation of the area as a U.S. National Monument in 1929, and was not included within the original boundary,
In the 1950s, the National Park Service investigated the possibility of applying a clear plastic coating to the arch to protect it from further erosion and eventual destruction. The idea was ultimately abandoned as impractical and contrary to NPS principles.[3]
Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.[4] The original sandstone fin was gradually worn away by weathering and erosion, leaving the arch. Other arches in the park were formed the same way but due to placement and less dramatic shape are not as famous.
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Bruce Bley
Karen, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Nature Landmarks Landscapes". I sincerely appreciate it.
Bruce Bley
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Bruce Bley
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Thank you for the feature in the group "Nature and Landscape", Charlie. I sincerely appreciate the honor.
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