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The second largest canyon in the country lies in the heart of the Texas Panhandle Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment.

Caprock Canyons State Park in Texas, red rocks rising out of the base of the Canyon, near Amarillo Texas, desert landscape, dry, arid conditions, bright blue sky on a hot sunny day

Colorful rocky landscape, created by wind making amazing formations called The Fairy Tale Canyon / Skazka Canyon, which is not far from small town Bokonbayevo which is located in the Southern shore of lake Issyk-Kul. Kyrgyzstan.

Landscape view on Lighthouse trail en route to Lighthouse rock in Palo Duro Canyon State Park

The unusual landscape of panhandle of north Texas in the Palo Duro Canyon State Park located just outside Amarillo.

Red sandstone, shale and siltstone, petrified wood and caprocks form brilliant, layered monuments in the massive canyon. Hoodoos speckle the mountainsides, along with juniper and cedar, caves and arroyos.

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA: eroded cliff side - Geologic time periods marked by major changes in the fossil record - rock strata covering the Permian age, Triassic age, Miocene-Pliocene age and at the top the Quaternary age - this cliff includes the Permian-Triassic (P-T) extinction boundary, colloquially known as the Great Dying, that took place about 248 million years ago. The extinction was caused by climate change. The main cause of extinction was the vast amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, which elevated global temperatures and acidified the oceans. Geological time scale, part of the Caprock Escarpment - Texas Panhandle.

Sandstone formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas.

Red Rock Canyon State Park. Oklahoma, USA

Formation at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX.

View of Fairytale canyon (Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan) in winter

Palo Duro Canyon colorful system of Caprock Escarpment located in Texas Panhandle near Amarillo, Texas, United States

Camel Rock Red Rock Formation - Eroded sandstone rock feature large at the top tapering toward the bottome. Bluish colored storm clouds in background with rock formation lit with golden hour light. Scenic desert landscape north of Santa Fe, and south of Taos, New Mexico USA.

Abiquiu, NM: Sunlit red-orange mountain cliffs in Abiquiu, 50 miles north of Santa Fe, a local painted by Georgia O’Keeffe. Copy space in the vibrant blue sky.

wildflowers in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas.

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks national park in New Mexico

In the Panhandle of Texas, Palo Duro Canyon is one of the largest canyons in the United States. Palo Duro Canyon is within the canyon system.

Colorful cliffs in the Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo Texas. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the country located in the Texas Panhandle near the city of Amarillo, Texas. Sixteen miles of scenic drives wind through the canyon's rugged beauty

Aerial view of High cliffs of a mountain in Arizona, USA.

View of Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas

View of Canyon Fairy Tale in sunny spring day

Palo Duro Canyon located in west Texas is the second largest canyon in the US and is sometimes referred to as the Grand Canyon of Texas. Rock formations including caves and hoodoos provide for this dramatic landscape.

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Lighthouse Rock trail inside Palo Duro State Park

The Mystic Grand Canyon in the Tangertag Mountains, Akesu, Xinjiang, China

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