Where Is it?

August 29, 2016 at 1:52 a.m.

by Celia Storey

Cedar Creek cascades beneath a wooden bridge along Cedar Creek Trail at Petit Jean State Park.
Cedar Creek cascades beneath a wooden bridge along Cedar Creek Trail at Petit Jean State Park.

The Happy Trails hiking column came across this sight while rambling around the state. Do you know where it is?

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Hint: The creek below this footbridge flows east to west along the middle of a mesa, scooping down through two sandstone formations. Geologists say the top of the mesa was once a valley.

Hint 2: Nearly vertical ledges and bluffs around the top of the mesa are part of the vast Hartshorne Sandstone formation of light gray or brown sedimentary rocks. As the creek cuts through this rock, it exposes the underlying Atoka formation, which erodes more easily and is made of tan or gray sandstone mixed with gray to black shale.

Think you know? See the answer on Page 3E.

-- Celia Storey

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