The Horse Shoe Bend on the Colorado River near Page, Arizona

View of 3 combo images of the Horse Shoe Bend on the Colorado River near Page, Arizona

A View on August 24, 2009 is seen of the Horse Shoe Bend on the Colorado River near Page, Arizona

View of Antelope Canyon, near Page, Arizona on August 24, 2009. The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." Upper Antelope is at about 4,000 feet elevation and the canyon walls rise 120 feet above the streambed. Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdestwazi, or "spiral rock arches." Both are located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation. Though dry most of the year, Antelope Canyon runs, and sometimes floods, with water after rains. It is the water, slowly wearing away the sandstone that has formed the beautiful and graceful curves in the rock. Wind has also played a role in sculpting the canyon.

View of the Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah on August 24, 2009. Bryce Canyon is a small national park in southwestern Utah. Named after the Mormon Pioneer Ebenezer Bryce, Bryce Canyon became a national park in 1924. Bryce is famous for its worldly unique geology, consisting of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos."