Afternoon sunlight bathes the Golden Throne in Capitol Wash. Shrub junipers bushes are in the foreground. The upper Chinle Formation and Wingate Sandstone form the dipping rock ridge in the mid ground. Golden Throne is Navajo Sandstone.
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