{"id":1743,"date":"2015-02-17T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2015-02-17T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T18:15:35","slug":"red-rock-canyon-las-vegas-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1743","title":{"rendered":"Red Rock Canyon – Las Vegas, NV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20150212_105422\"<\/a>Red Rock canyon is just west of Las Vegas, NV.\u00a0 This area is a national conservation<\/a> area covering ~ 200,000 acres.\u00a0 It is part of the Mojave Desert, and is located just outside the city limits, roughly 30 minutes from our usual Vegas home-base: Tahiti Village.<\/p>\n

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The canyon has some pretty cool geological features<\/a>.\u00a0 \"Red<\/a>You can see the different colors in the this photo (right).\u00a0 In the photo, notice the gray rock (middle of photo) – this is the oldest rock.\u00a0 Being the oldest rock, you would think it would be found under the newer rock.\u00a0 But because of an earthquake fault known as the keystone fault, this older rock has been thrust above the newer, buff and red rock.\u00a0 All the way on the right side of the photo, you’ll notice red, or dark orange rock.\u00a0 This rock gets it color from iron oxide deposits within the rock; basically the rock is “rusting.”\u00a0 The buff (or white) rock are rocks that do not contain iron oxide deposits or the iron oxide has been leeched out, or simply non-existent.\u00a0\u00a0 There are two basically different makeups of the rock that form Red Rock Canyon:<\/p>\n

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  1. The dark gray rock is limestone.\u00a0 This rock is well over 250 million years old.\u00a0 This rock was deposited on the bottom of the ocean basin that was here 500 million years ago.\u00a0 The rocks we see today are basically 250 million years of ocean sediment.<\/li>\n
  2. The other type of rock are outcrops of Aztec Sandstone.\u00a0 Aztec Sandstone<\/a> was created after the ocean basin resided, and the area was part of a massive desert.\u00a0 In short, as the desert’s sand dunes built upon each other, they created sandstone.\u00a0 When up close, you can see the sand dunes and their development over one another – pretty awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Red<\/a>I find it very interesting at the amount of wildlife found in the desert.\u00a0 Where there is a wash, there is life.\u00a0 At the visitor’s center, they discuss the wash, and how wildlife use it.\u00a0 Something I had never thought of as to why wildlife are around it, it’s nature’s equivalent to the highway system.\u00a0 It is easier to travel along the open, sandy beds of a wash, then to travel through the surrounding desert.\u00a0 The wash also offers safety for smaller animals and it’s moisture attract all; including lizards and snakes.<\/p>\n

    \"RRC-scenic<\/a>The cost of admission to the canyon is modest, I think around $10 a car.\u00a0 If you do visit, visit the visitor’s center prior to starting the scenic drive, as the drive ends far away from the visitor’s center.\u00a0 if you come to Vegas, this has to be on your “to-do” list.<\/p>\n

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    Red Rock canyon is just west of Las Vegas, NV.\u00a0 This area is a national conservation area covering ~ 200,000 acres.\u00a0 It is part of the Mojave Desert, and is located just outside the city limits, roughly 30 minutes from … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,7],"tags":[50,64,97,105],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeshare","category-travel","tag-america","tag-holiday","tag-nv","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":935,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/935","url_meta":{"origin":1743,"position":0},"title":"American Gestapo","author":"DR D","date":"April 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"With the recent shootings, and the bombings in Boston, MA, there have been new calls for gun legislation, immigration reform and prosecuting the bombing suspects as terrorist.\u00a0 We (as a country) need to be very, very careful about the precedents we set.\u00a0 Look at what we got from our rush\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Rants & Raves"","block_context":{"text":"Rants & Raves","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/rants-raves"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2571,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2571","url_meta":{"origin":1743,"position":1},"title":"Am I smarter than the waffle iron?","author":"DR D","date":"October 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently, the bosslady and I have been on the road. \u00a0I'll give more details on the trip in another post later. \u00a0But today, I'd like to concentrate on the evils of waffle machines. \u00a0Sure, they look innocent...but they are really evil. 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