Wupatki and Sunset Crater

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 Wupatki and Sunset Crater


A side trip from our Grand Canyon campsite brought us to these two Arizona national monuments within a few miles of each other. Wupatki Pueblo, built c. 1100, is a masonry structure of close to 100 rooms and several stories. Their surviva attests to the considerable skills of the builders. Archaeologists tell us that Wupatki was an agrarian society that came together some time after the nearby volcanic eruption of what is known today as Sunset Crater. The people of Wupatki were able to develop a culture that thrived in a land of scant water and resources. We modern-day people have something to learn from them.


We walked the grounds of Wupatki, and then headed down the road to Sunset Crater. The volcano is the type known as a cinder cone, formed by the rise of magma in a central vent. Magma is a mix of molten rock and gases. As the magma rises, pressure drops and the gases are released causing an explosion from the central vent. Small rocks, “cinders,” fall around the vent creating the cinder cone. Magma with lower gas content flows out as lava from side vents in the cone. We walked the lava field, now quiet but once hell on Earth. 

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