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The second largest canyon in the country lies in the heart of the Texas Panhandle Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment.

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Landscape view on Lighthouse trail en route to Lighthouse rock in Palo Duro Canyon State Park

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA: eroded cliff side - Geologic time periods marked by major changes in the fossil record - rock strata covering the Permian age, Triassic age, Miocene-Pliocene age and at the top the Quaternary age - this cliff includes the Permian-Triassic (P-T) extinction boundary, colloquially known as the Great Dying, that took place about 248 million years ago. The extinction was caused by climate change. The main cause of extinction was the vast amount of carbon dioxide emitted by volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, which elevated global temperatures and acidified the oceans. Geological time scale, part of the Caprock Escarpment - Texas Panhandle.

Caprock Canyons State Park in Texas, red rocks rising out of the base of the Canyon, near Amarillo Texas, desert landscape, dry, arid conditions, bright blue sky on a hot sunny day

This is the Cimarron River and bluff at sunset. It is near the town of Freedom in western Oklahoma.

The unusual landscape of panhandle of north Texas in the Palo Duro Canyon State Park located just outside Amarillo.

The lighthouse. Just outside Canyon Texas

Palo Duro Canyon, Texas

Rock Formations at Bisti Badlands in New Mexico

Sandstone formations in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas.

Hoodoo Village in the Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico.

Palo Duro Canyon State Park Overlook Summer Arid

USA Southwest outdoors: hiking on the trails of Arches National Park. The cryptobiotic delicate desert soil and biocrusts are a crucial ecosystem feature

Aerial View of Palo Duro Canyon

A stream into the mountainous red-rock landscape at Palo Duro Canyon located in the northern panhandle of Texas just outside of Amarillo.

Lighthouse Rock trail inside Palo Duro State Park

Red Rock Canyon State Park. Oklahoma, USA

In the Panhandle of Texas, Palo Duro Canyon is one of the largest canyons in the United States. Palo Duro Canyon is within the canyon system.

Close-up of a Toadstool Hoodoo in the heat of the desert near the city of Kanab in Utah, USA. Seen a hot summer day with blue sky in the background.

Beautiful desert landscape in Texas

Landscape view on Lighthouse trail en route to Lighthouse rock in Palo Duro Canyon State Park

Red Rocks Canyon Area at Sunset - Scenic landscape looking through rock hoodoos framing distant mountain in background lit with afternoon sunset light.

View of Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas

Drone picture of cracked red rocks in the abandoned site of bauxite quarry in Otranto, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy, Europe

Capitol Peak in Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas.

Hoodoos in the Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico.

The famous Lighthouse Rock and a stone pile at Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

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