Looking northwest at one of the Papago Buttes from the Desert Botanical Garden.  These steeply dipping / beds of age are riddled with small caves called "".  Tall Saguaro cacti (20 to 30 feet, 6 to 10 meters) are visible on the foreground slopes.
   The dip is visible at about 45° to the left in this picture, and the tilt resulted from fault activity associated with the uplift of the South Mountain , about 8 miles (~13km) to the southwest.  The rocks shown here are the same formation as that found on the west end of Camelback Mountain.
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