A huge georeasoned feature in southern Utah understandn as the “Double Arch,” the “Hole in the Roof” — and sometimes the “Toilet Bowl” — has collapsed, National Park Service officials shelp Friday. No injuries were alerted.
The famous arch in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area fell Thursday, and park rangers mistrust changing water levels and erosion from waves in Lake Powell gived to its demise.
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Michelle Kerns, superintfinishent of the recreation area that spans the border of Utah and Arizona, shelp the collapse serves as a reminder to protect the mineral resources that surround the lake.
This ptoastyo provided by the National Park Service shows the Double Arch, caccess, after the collapse, Friday, August 9th, 2024, in Rock Creek Bay of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. (Jacob E. Ohlson/National Park Service via AP)
“These features have a life span that can be impactd or injured by manmade interventions,” she shelp in a statement.
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The arch was createed from 190-million-year-elderly Navajo sandstone originating in the tardy Triassic to punctual Jurassic periods. The fine-grained sandstone has finishured erosion from weather, thrived and rain, the statement shelp.
The recreation area encompasses csurrfinisherly 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) and is famous among boaters and hikers.
