Wall Arch Gone, Gone


	Wall Arch Gone, Gone

owlpath

8-9-2008 9:16 PM

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owlpath says:

Too bad. Now it is just history.

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12-23-2008 10:27 AM

urbanlife

Over 2,000 arches in the park? I wonder what creates them...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/688be138-1b60-4ba8-9737-f1682cf96f03/BE0C79E0-4A82-4120-BE76-EB6164BAC7C4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park" href="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nationalparkstraveler.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park">Collapse of "Wall Arch" Proves Gravity Does Work at Arches National Park</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><P>One minute it was there, the next it was gone. </p> <P>The collapse of "Wall Arch" at <A class="bb-url" href="http://www.nps.gov/arch">Arches National Park</A> proves once again that gravity does work, even though you might wonder after gazing at the "rockitecture" of this dazzling Utah park.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nationalparkstraveler.com/img/E644F449-CB8E-41A0-B89E-BE4935BE8029" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nationalparkstraveler.com/img/EC448BDF-FC6B-485C-AEEB-1ECB09A04FCE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><P>Wall Arch, long a key attraction along the park's Devils Garden Trail, collapsed sometime overnight August 4. And since rock has continued to peel off of the collapsed arch, officials have been forced to temporarily close the popular trail just beyond Landscape Arch.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><P>First reported and named by Lewis T. McKinney in 1948, Wall Arch was a free-standing arch in the Slickrock member of the Entrada sandstone. The opening beneath the span was 71-feet wide and 33-1/2 feet high. It ranked 12th in size among the over 2,000 known arches in the park.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2008/08/collapse-wall-arch-proves-gravity-does-work-arches-national-park"><P>No one has reported observing the arch collapse and there were no visitor injuries.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BE0C79E0-4A82-4120-BE76-EB6164BAC7C4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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