What is this place?

This place has vertical rock walls rising more than ten meters from a flat rock floor.

How did it form?

Can you figure out the history of this place?

More questions...

From Across the Valley 1.JPG	From Across the Valley 2.JPG	From Across the Valley 3.JPG
From Across the Valley 4.JPG	DSCN0821.JPG	Looking up cliff face.JPG
DSCN0823.JPG	the floor.JPG	DSCN0825.JPG
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On the way out.JPG

Why does this place look like this? Generic Virtual Fieldtrip Questions:

1. What kind(s) of rock(s) are found in the area?  How do you know?  What environment did these rocks probably form in?
2. Describe the arrangement and variety of rocks shown in the photographs. 
3. Tell a story of how these rocks may have formed referring back to the photographs and what you have determined about the rock sample(s).
4. What has happened to this area to make it look the way it does today?  (That is, what has happened to the area since the rocks formed?)  Why do you think so (what is the evidence for your claim)?
5. If you could go to the site, what else would you want to do to answer the above questions?