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Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses
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Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses; no visitor injuries
By Tom Wharton
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/09/2008 06:30:31 AM MDT

Posted: 6:05 PM- Wall Arch, one of the most accessible major arches in the Devils Garden area of Arches National Park, collapsed sometime Monday night.
    "Not being a geologist, I can't get very technical but it just went kaboom," Chief Ranger Denny Ziemann said. "The middle of the arch just collapsed under its own weight. It just happens."
    Wall Arch, located along the popular Devils Garden Trail, was 71 feet tall and 33 1/2 feet wide, ranking it 12th in size among the known arches inside the park. Lewis T. McKinney first reported and named Wall Arch in 1948.
    No one reported observing the arch collapse and there were no visitor injuries,
Wall Arch is shown before and after it collapsed in Arches National Park. (Courtesy Arches National Park)
the National Park Service said.
    Geologists from the Park Service's Geologic Resources Division and the Utah Geologic Survey visited the site Thursday and noticed obvious stress fractures in the remaining Wall Arch formation, spokesman Paul Henderson said in a statement. Rock debris completely blocked a section of the trail about a mile from the Devils Garden parking area.
    As a result, the trail has been closed just beyond Landscape Arch. Landscape is the longest arch in the park, which, with 2,000 natural arches, contains the largest number of these rock formations in the world. Chunks of Landscape Arch have fallen in recent years as well but the arch itself remains intact.
 


The trail will remain closed until visitor safety issues can be resolved.
    "Geologists are concerned it is not done falling," said Ziemann, who could not recall the last time a major arch at the park collapsed. "It could be 24 hours or 2,400 years. It's kind of a mystery. We'll watch it for a while and will know soon. With the middle missing, the weight shifts and the remaining pieces will ultimately fall. It's a matter of how long."
    Ziemann said the trail closure extends from Double 0 Arch to Wall Arch. If the rest of Wall Arch falls soon, the Park Service will clear off the trail to make it passable. If it continues to teeter over the trail, it may be a while before the trail reopens.
    Robert Iberia of the Moab Area Travel Council called the collapse "geology in action. You hate to see those go down. But it happens. It's a natural phenomenon."
    The Park Service's Henderson noted that all arches are temporary features and will eventually succumb to the forces of gravity and erosion. While the geologic forces that create the arches continue, in human terms it's rare to see such dramatic changes as a major collapse of an arch.

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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: rugergirl79]
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Bummer.


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: The_Ghost]
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so if no1 was around to hear it happen, did it make a sound?


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: The_Ghost]
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I think it's funny. That was Utah's icon, wasn't it?

There was another state with a natural stone icon (old man's face or whatever) that just fell done. From what I remember it was kind of a lame state. It's like Earth is saying "Fuck you!" and rebelling in it's own little way.


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: rugergirl79]
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I remember seeing that Arch when visiting the park as a young child.

Coaster said:
so if no1 was around to hear it happen, did it make a sound?


Things colliding with one another create sound waves, regardless of whether or not people hear them. I hate that question!


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: PyroBurns]
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thay have like 20 more arches
thats not even the one on there lcense plate


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I remember seeing that Arch when visiting the park as a young child.

Coaster said:
so if no1 was around to hear it happen, did it make a sound?


Things colliding with one another create sound waves, regardless of whether or not people hear them. I hate that question!


wut if there was a vacuum between u and the archway thus sound had nothing to vibrate, is there sound then?


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: Coaster]
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Coaster said:
wut if there was a vacuum between u and the archway thus sound had nothing to vibrate, is there sound then?


same answer applies unless the falling objects are inside a vacuum or are made of marshmallows


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: Prisoner#1]
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ya thats wut i was sayin if everythin was in a vacuum


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: The_Ghost]
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The_Ghost said:
Bummer.



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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I remember seeing that Arch when visiting the park as a young child.

Coaster said:
so if no1 was around to hear it happen, did it make a sound?


Things colliding with one another create sound waves, regardless of whether or not people hear them. I hate that question!


Are those waves considered sound if they don't enter an ear?  :strokebeard:


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: Coaster]
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No, sound waves propagate by vibrating molecules. No molecules = no sound waves and vacuum = no molecules.

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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: Coaster]
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Coaster said:
ya thats wut i was sayin if everythin was in a vacuum



if you were in the vacuum as well then you'd be dead and still never know the answer :smirk:


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: rugergirl79]
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I was just about to post about this, they have 2,000 arches, I've been there to seem them, not that cool not like seeing the grand canyon or anything.


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: UnholyChild666]
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Take that Utah :bondage:

Erosion > Utah


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: PyroBurns]
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PyroBurns said:
There was another state with a natural stone icon (old man's face or whatever) that just fell done. From what I remember it was kind of a lame state. It's like Earth is saying "Fuck you!" and rebelling in it's own little way.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain


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Re: Utah's famous Wall Arch collapses [Re: CosmicFool]
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I didn't even think that arch was very impressive.

There are quite a few other very cool ones.



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