{"id":4475,"date":"2011-01-30T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2020-03-08T00:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:40:21","slug":"the-fire-wave-valley-of-fire-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/the-fire-wave-valley-of-fire-state-park.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fire Wave, Valley of Fire State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo of the Fire Wave in Valley of Fire State Park<\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently had a chance to see a sandstone formation often called “The Fire Wave<\/a>“. My daughter and I hiked to this place at sunset, in Valley of Fire State Park<\/a> in Nevada, an hour east of Las Vegas. This was a beautiful spot, not only for this special striated sandstone formation but for the white domes<\/a>, colorful eroded washes<\/a> and brilliant red mesas<\/a> that surrounded us as we enjoyed the fading light and still, warm air.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fire Wave, a beautiful sandstone formation exhibiting dramatic striations, striped layers in the geologic historical record.
\nImage ID: 26473<\/a>
\nLocation: Valley of Fire State Park<\/a>, Nevada<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

My guess is that the name “Fire Wave” was bestowed upon this relatively small formation due to its similarity to the more famous “Wave” in North Coyote Buttes Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness<\/a> a few hours away in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo of the Fire Wave in Valley of Fire State Park I recently had a chance to see a sandstone formation often called “The Fire Wave“. My daughter and I hiked to this place at sunset, in Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, an hour east of Las Vegas….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,379,125],"tags":[382,267,392,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-4475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nevada","8":"category-the-american-southwest","9":"category-valley-of-fire","10":"tag-american-southwest","11":"tag-landscape","12":"tag-nevada","13":"tag-valley-of-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}