Back to Fantasy Canyon. This place is just plain weird! The size of the site is not large (as most Southwestern locations go), but the number and density of these formations is amazing.

My hypothesis is that the formations were created and then covered with silt and sand over the eons. I say this, because all of these formations seem to be weathering out of a loose, silty strata. If one were to rig a hose out there and direct the stream of water to the base of these formations, many more would appear from within the mud. It's almost as if the original formations were replacement filling within cracks in much softer rock. Since the replacement fill was harder than the rock, they remained when the rock was eroded away... Just my $.02

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