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Bryce Canyon: Frost Carved These Hoodoos, Not Water
Bryce Canyon isn't really a canyon -- it's a retreating plateau edge covered in thousands of hoodoo spires. We cover why frost wedging, not flowing water, is the primary sculptor here, how the uneven Claron Formation rock gives hoodoos their lumpy shape, and why the entire amphitheater is slowly eating back into the plateau.
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