The Wave
The Wave and Coyote Buttes North
Masterpieces of Nature Paria Plateau and The Wave
The Wave is a 190-million-year-old sandstone rock formation located in the
United States of America near the Arizona and Utah border on the slopes of
the Coyote Buttes, in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, on the
Colorado Plateau. It is famous for its colorful, undulating forms, and the
rugged, trackless hike required to reach it.
The Wave is made of Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone. Scientists say that the
old sand dunes turned into hard compacted rock over the ages. “The dunes
have calcified in vertical and horizontal layers over the years. Erosion by
wind and rain has created the spectacular landscape which appears now.