Where Would You Guess This Picture Was Taken?

No place I've ever been. Might be Mars, I've never been to Mars...

Mars?

Must be.

Otherwise, it would not be worthy of note.

How about these?

If all these came from the same planet, Mars is ruled out.

If not, FOUL!

Northern AZ. or southern Utah is my new guess, only because I've been there.

The first one I'm pretty sure would be Mars.

No idea about the next 3

Next one is Red Rock Canyon Nevada

The fossil is a Sea lily (Scyphocrinus elegans) Ram says it comes from Morocco, so I'll take his word for that.

The last one is in Antelope canyon Arizona

The last posted one is in Red Rock canyon.

Definitely Earth - unless we now have proof of life on another planet???

I'll hedge my bets and say somewhere on Earth.

Am I closer?

The cool fossil image is from southern Morocco.

btw- the info is embedded in the image, no need for Google Images!

These are all sedimentary rock formations, some on Earth, some on Mars...

Your back yard?

Mars Rover

http://cdn.phys.org/newman/csz/news/800/2016/2-marsrovercur.jpg

I see a face in the wall of the cliff.

Now where is it?

This picture with the others you posted, maybe Rocky mountains around the Pikes Pike area in Colorado Springs.... just due to the coloring.... with the red rocks... higher altitude....

But then I saw the swept area on the other pic you posted,.... I'd go with the more deserted area.... Arizona?

Maybe even west Texas.... Canyon area....

None of those are in Texas, unless we annexed Mars. It could happen.

Lake Powell area (I forgot the name of the canyons there) for one of the images, where the sandstone is carved into odd shapes by water and wind. Bryce Canyon, Utah, Zion national park for another.

I was think more of Palo Duro Canyon.... because of the variety of stratification's.

Nah, the ones there are not that spectacular, those really must be in Utah, AFAICT.

now that you mentioned it,... what about the badlands?.... never been there, but throwing it out to see if that sticks.

Nope, not Palo Duro, I worked there in the summers of '70 and '71.... And spent many weekends wandering through it during those years....... Although we have lots of places that come close here in the Texas Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico that come close.

Not in my backyard.

Excuse me while I go out back and finish excavating the Woolly Mammoth that the dogs unearthed yesterday.

So you live in Michigan....

No, I live in upstate NY. Both Woolly Mammoths and Mastodons once roamed here, until about 12,000 years ago.

Back in 2000, a guy in Hyde Park, NY was dredging a pond on his property to turn it into a swimming hole and found a Mastodon!

Hyde Park is located about 12 miles or so directly south of us.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2000-09-21/news/0009210064_1_mastodon-lozier-backyard-pond

Sorry, my bad. He found part of it in 1999, but the major draining of the pond and archeology work started in 2000.

Here's some pics and an article about it:

https://www.priweb.org/mastodon/HP_mast/HP_Mast_facts.html

I think thats pretty cool.... where I live, Northeast Wisconsin, the area was once a shallow sea... so the fossils in our area are corral and sometimes when picking stones on the fields (the area is part of the Niagara escarpment and shallow soil, bedrock is close to and sometimes at the surface) you sometimes come up with a fossilized clams. but only in certain areas... and its not embedded in stones, its sitting loose on top of worked up soil.

Helping my brother pick stones about 8 years ago, and I found a really good one, about 4-1/4" long fossilized clam completely intact. I gave it to my girlfriends daughter for her science project.... I should have had her come out an help pick stones.

There has been around a dozen or so Wholly Mammoths and Mastodons remains found in this general area since the 1890s. And many more throughout the rest of the state.

We also have some of the oldest fossils found on the planet, as well as the oldest rock formations. It's a treasure trove here, especially in the escarpments that were carved open by the last Ice Age. Much of this is on display at the New York State Museum in Albany. I could spend an entire month there looking over their displays.

That's pretty cool that you found the huge clam fossil! Do you have any photos of it to share with us?

That's on our bucket list,.... we went to Chicago Field Museum... had to take a look at 'Sue'... There was a documentary I saw on that recently...

And on a side topic... what a story that was.

Interesting when the government gets involved after greed. But what else is new...

Has to be somewhere on Earth as we have never been to Mars.

Mars, Pennsylvania. Nice little town....

So are we back on that fake space travel crap? What a joke!

This then brings up an interesting question. Is there another mechanism beside water erosion silt deposits that makes sedimentary rock formations?

A semantic question, maybe, but are wind erosion and downwind loess deposition considered to be sedimentary?

No.

That is precisely my point. If the downwind accumulation from wind erosion can produce sedimentary rock formations then the sedimentary rock formations found on Mars are not proof of ancient water. I suspect (geology is not my field) that a "dry" sedimentary formation would not have well defined layers since a drying out compaction would not occur.

Why not? The ashfall from Mt St Helens in 1980 had discernible layers, at least in some locations.

Pyroclastic flow on Earth might not be the same as on Mars. On Earth we know it contains loads of steam.

Tuff (from volcanic ash) can be classified as igneous or sedimentary rock material. However, none of the images I found for tuff shows any stratification layers.

I would agree - usually Tuff is deposited in one thick layer somewhere near the volcano.

The stratified ashfall I saw was from Yakima, where I grew up, some hundred miles east from Mt St Helens. Yakima had about 3/4" of ashfall; eastward around Lind and Odessa (WA, USA) had up to ~4" in some places. That'll be some fertile soil in upcoming times.

if one can get past the possible fibrotic lung disease. They started a study on this about 40 years ago, prior to Mt. St. Helens eruption. So, long term effects is still out there to be determined.

I agree about futile land in a volcanoes shadow

No. "futile" land is when your plumber digs a darned big old hole in the backyard, and puts the dirt back in upside down, and even needs more dirt for some odd reason. Not even grass will grow on that until I mix in some compost, maybe some potting soil.

Subsoil does not have much in the way of nutrients for plants, may have too high an SAR (depending on local water supply if irrigated), and has none of the beneficial bacteria and soil gums needed for fertility.

fertile ≠ futile

you're on a futile quest, and I commend you for it.

Unless there was furtive thinking involved.

I like dealing above the table.... it's a lot easier.

Good point, you don't have to remember which lie was told when that way.

Do you not suppose that direct exposure to harsh UV and even cosmic rays could cement particles of sand together enough for them to stick together? What to the individual grains looks like under wind erosion compared to water erosion and transport?

Very interesting.

But there is water on Mars! It's frozen underground in the huge caverns after the aliens left. I know, I saw it in the movie! All we need to do is push the big button. Be careful of taunting holograms.

Wind can do strange things, and no one has lived long enough to study the precise wind speeds and pressures acting on "sand stone" on Mars. OH SNAP - how did Mars get "sand stone" in the first place without water to cement the silica grains to bond together?

How could it form in strata if not for water with changing conditions and varying rates of silt deposition?

I do not think this has anything to do with a collision between a planet impacting ProtoEarth since how would it be possible to spin off the moon and Mars from one such impact event.

I believe there is plenty of valid evidence already shown for the existence of water on Mars in ancient times, eons ago. With the loss of Mars magnetic field due to core cooling, low molecular weight water was no longer retained by the atmosphere, and hence carbon dioxide now dominates, so I am told.

Wind can do strange things,

especially when mixed with sand....

Yes there is if by sedimentary you talk about layering so it looks like sedimentation cycles.

First guess - it is not an asteroid. Second guess - It is on Earth (as seen in other pics, a human is standing next to one of the stratified formations).

Third guess - Moab area, Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentary_rock#/media/File:SEUtahStrat.JPG

Dead Horse Point Utah, or somewhere on the Green River.

'Where would you guess this picture was taken'

Why guess? I was in the hallway when I opened this page. From there, I took this picture into the living room.

Next?

In a plastic surgeon's office.

Worst case of cellulitus he had ever seen.