The Papago Buttes from Camelback Mountain, basking in the late afternoon sun.  Beyond, to the southeast, stretches an expanse of the .  The buttes are layers of age , tilted away from the South Mountain , about 8 miles to their southwest, out of view to the right in this picture.
 
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