Desert icons collapse as southwestern US gets pummeled with rain and flooding
Officials estimate the damage could reach hundreds of millions of dollars as record rainfall erodes the landscape and topples two iconic formations.
- On Oct 30, Kialo Winters, founder of Navajo Tours USA, discovered the Alien Throne had collapsed in New Mexico, following the earlier fall of the King of Wings rock formation within weeks.
- Back-to-Back storms recently dumped more than 20 trillion gallons of rain across the Four Corners region and Nevada, saturating ground and accelerating erosion that toppled the sandstone structures.
- Native Americans view the features as ancestral waypoints guiding trade routes for thousands of years, while visitor Alan Studt documented weathering including cracks and holes in photographs from 2019 onward.
- Social media users shared condolences and debated the fragility of natural wonders, with some expressing gratitude for photographs while others lamented never visiting the remote formations.
- Winters urged visitors to let the remaining sites "rest," calling on people to avoid climbing on what remains and cautioning against taking any pieces home.
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Rains destroy New Mexico iconic structure – The Horn News
There are stretches of high desert in northwestern New Mexico where Mother Nature has sculpted otherworldly forms using wind, rain and the passage of time. Hefty planks of rock defy gravity as they balance atop spindly pedestals of clay, while some columns of sandstone take on the appearance of lace,... Read More The post Rains destroy New Mexico iconic structure appeared first on The Horn News - Proudly American, Fiercely Independent.
Iconic Rock Formations Collapse in New Mexico
There are stretches of high desert in northwestern New Mexico where Mother Nature has sculpted otherworldly forms using wind, rain, and the passage of time. Hefty planks of rock defy gravity as they balance atop spindly pedals of clay, while some columns of sandstone take on the appearance of lace,...
Desert icons collapse as southwestern US gets pummeled with rain and flooding – WTOP News
There are stretches of high desert in northwestern New Mexico where Mother Nature has sculpted otherworldly forms using wind, rain and the passage of time. Hefty planks of rock defy gravity as they balance atop spindly pedestals of clay, while some columns of sandstone take on the appearance of lace, elaborately eroded by the seasons....
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