This is Agathla Peak in Arizona. According to our friends at Wikipedia, it is an "eroded volcanic plug consisting of volcanic breccia cut by dikes of an unusual igneous rock called minette."
It is one of many such volcanic diatremes that are found in Navajo country of northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico.
The English designation Agathla is derived from the Navajo name aghaałą́ meaning 'much wool', apparently for the fur of antelope and deer accumulating on the rock. The mountain is considered sacred by the Navajo.
Great picture. We came across it the day we visited Monument Valley and were really surprised and delighted to see it just ... there.
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Just made this image my desktop wallpaper, awesome!
Fantastic light blue sky with gradient-dense gray-purple cumulus clouds shading the bare peak, and the pleasing contrast of a pale rust foreground with minimal vegetation. Excellent framing.
One of your best. That sky looks like it was painted - in a good way.
The image is loaded with fractals that abound in nature.
This photo is not particularly sharp despite your 1/2500 aperture speed and ISO at 100. Any reason why? Did you crop (and rescale)?
Apparently, minette is not minette.
Minette is sedimentary iron ore in Luzembourg and Lorraine from the Jurassic period.
This stuff is lamprophyre, for which minette is an archaic, local (but it doesn't say where) term, and occurs in small quantities essentially everywhere and from everywhen, Archaen through Cenozoic.
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Is this similar to Shiprock in New Mexico, southwest of Durango?