Jul 13, 2025
The White Pocket is an isolated piece of sandstone, notoriously difficult to reach, hidden within the wilderness extension of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, near the Arizona / Utah border. The entire area is covered with a gray rock layer, sometimes only a few centimeters thick. The extraordinary geology in White Pocket is not easily explained. Some geologists claim that it is the result of "soft sediment deformation", which means that the contortions and twists occurred in the Jurassic era, while the sand was saturated and before the sand was completely turned into rock.
