Wow! I had to slowly go through all the photos, pausing to study each one. Stunning. Thanks for doing this post and mentioning hoodoos to me. I cannot get over this place. I really wish I could see it in person. I love the curving in the photo where you show how the water has shaped the stone. Do you know what the composite of the stone there is? From what I can tell, it looks like a type of sandstone layered with a conglomerate. There seem to be small stones imbedded in each.
After we were talking, I went looking at the hoodoos. Oddly enough, I came across a place in northwestern British Columbia with hoodoos
You're more than welcome! I'd never heard of them myself until the friend I was traveling with told me about Tent Rocks, no clue how she found out about it. I was blown away when we got there, there's just some much cool shit to see. I think the place floods pretty good on the rare occasion that it gets rain, there was a surprising amount of obvious water erosion effects on the rocks, especially down in the slot canyon. Some of it was rather reminiscent of how driftwood looks. According to the wiki page they're tuff and pumice but I have no other knowledge about that. Yeah, there were definitely what appeared to be small stones embedded in them, reminded me of old decaying concrete that has broken down enough the aggregate is kinds exposed.
Never would have expected to find hoodoos in BC, that's a badass looking shot and place. Do you have any idea how remote the place is where that shot is from?
I can only imagine what the whole experience must be like. Too bad you can't be there overnight. I think I'd need weeks to explore that area.
Your description of the stone answers some of my questions. I'm not familiar with tuff, but I see it's also connected to volcanic activity, the same as pumice is. Several sites I've looked at are basalt, which is also supposed to be volcanic. I tend to look at chemical compositions of stone, so I'm wandering into that here. The fact you say it reminds you of old decaying concrete made me think of St. Martin's, New Brunswick. There are stones embedded into a soft sandstone in a similar manner, although much denser with the number of them. Reminded me of masonry or concrete the way you described.
I stumbled on that by accident, due to our conversation, lol. This one is located in northern British Columbia, about three quarters away from the US border and very close to the coast. It's very isolated from what I see and supposedly the area is covered with glacier for a large part of the time.
Oops, somehow I missed this. Yeah, I don't know anything about the chemical compositions. Lol, that sounds remote enough for me!
Anyways, I was just reading a bit more on the Tetons and came across this, which might answer questions from an earlier conversation.
Per wikipedia:
Yes, it's really isolated! Interesting what wikipedia says. I'll have to take a look at the land mass where the fault line is. I still think it's rather strange that there are no foothills, regardless of what wiki says.