Angels' Window

by Robert Bales

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Angels' Window

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Robert Bales

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Photograph - Photo

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During the uplifting of the Kaibab Plateau, stress and strain caused the rock to fracture turning vertical joints that insect the horizontal bedding plane. weathering {rain, freezing and thawing) along these planes and joints has eroded a hole in the Kaibab limestone and enlarged it to form the window.
The north rim has two main viewpoints towards the east, reached by the side road. One is Point Imperial, the highest in the park at an elevation of 8,803 feet, which apart from the canyon, here relatively shallow and less branched, also overlooks large areas of the Painted Desert and the Navajo Reservation. The second is Cape Royal (7,865 feet), perhaps the best of the north rim sites. The cape is 20 miles from AZ 67, right at the end of the road which becomes rather narrow and twisting over the last couple of miles as it runs along a steep sided ridge. There is a large carpark and a short nature trail leading to the point, where the ground drops away steeply in most directions affording superb views east, south and west along the Grand Canyon. Nearby is the short path to Cliff Spring.

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November 6th, 2015

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