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The tiny cracks looking a bit like bird tracks are cased by ice crystals forming in the mud overnight and then thawing when the sun hits the mud and melts the ice.
Grand Wash, Wayne County, Utah.
The small fractures in the mud are caused by ice crystals which melt as soon as the temperature gets above freezing.
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Bentonite Mud -- San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah.
Possible image for inclusion in a book I'm working on. To see other possible images check out the album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157671826898273
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Gray Mud cakes with a dash of alkali thrown in just for fun. Its a hard life in the wide arroyo at the mouth of Huntington Canyon, Utah.
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