While Sedona has great beauty in its rocks - there is a geological blah unless you get excited about the details of layers of sandstone and occasional limestone - It's neat, but not THAT old or diverse.
Jerome on the other hand is where there was volcanic and tectonic activity and undersea smokers - volcanic vents - and as a result many minerals and some elements were percolated from the matrix into what was extremely rich ore.. There are some rocks over a billion years old.
Jerome is also funky and has a freewheeling past - and one of these eons is probably going to slide down the mountain. There are 88 miles of underground mine tunnels (that caught fire and could not be put out) and a couple of abandoned open pit mines - and it's built on a fault. There is one exhibit where you stand on glass on top of an abandoned shaft that goes down way over a thousand feet. Shelley did not like it much.
A rock with lots of minerals all concentrated
Jerome clings to the side of a steep mountain
Shelley with a specimen
San Francisco peak near Flagstaff 50 Miles away or so.
the cliffs and canyons around sedona about 20 miles away
back home the hummingbirds were giving us a show.
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