The Boston Herald reported that Scalia had made an obscene gesture. Scalia responded with a scathing letter to the editor, accusing the newspaper staff of watching too many episodes of The Sopranos. He said the gesture wasn't obscene, but dismissive.
Monument Valley has been eroding for the last 50 million years. Once this area was a flat plateau of sandstone layered with shale. As the Colorado Plateau rose, vertical faults were formed and the plateaus slide upwards from each other. The faulting exposed the lower levels of shale to erosion.
Monument Valley-Arizona. Monument Valley, located on the Arizona-Utah state line, is the site of a cluster of magnificent sandstone buttes, the tallest of which reach 1,000 feet above the valley floor. Read More... The valley is part of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, a Navajo Nation equivalent to a national park. The entire area is located within the Navajo Indian Reservation near the town of Goulding, originally established in 1923 as a trading post.