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| We found the most 'other-worldly' landscapes at Bryce Canyon. It truly is a place like no other. Bryce Canyon is an ampitheater cut ino the edge of a plateau. This half-bowl-shaped area is about three miles long, two miles wide and about 1,000 feet deep. At Bryce Canyon ice is the most efficient form of erosion. The Paunsaugunt Plateau above Bryce gets approximately 100 inches of snowfall a year. It also has about 200 days of freeze and thaw when snow melts and runs into the joints and freezes at night. When the water freezes it expands the space between rocks. The ice wedges grow as more water leaks into the increasing joints between rocks, finally breaking the rock. This process is called frost wedging.
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