For my visit to Death Valley, I chose to view the Golden Canyon which runs to the Red Cathedral. The picture I tagged below was found from another source on the internet and I truly thought it was a beautiful and rather interesting image. As you can see from the image alone towards the back, it seems as though the rocks are deposited in an original horizontality manner as mentioned in Steno's Laws but I am not 100% positive about this. Also, since we recently discussed relative age dating, I would like to know how old these rocks are and exactly what kind of rock it is although after doing further research I concluded it may be sedimentary rocks where the color ranges from orange to gold to red as seen.
source: shungphotography.com
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