Where To Find Moqui Marbles

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Where to find moqui marbles.

Moqui marbles are found in the navajo desert. Local gal shari gave us instructions on how to find the moqui balls. Moqui marbles are a fun and often abundant rock formation found in the spectacular red navajo sandstone regions of southern utah. One theory is that some of the younger concretions were formed by the colorado river as it started eroding through the navajo sandstone of the area.

To get to the area from the town of escalante take hwy 12 4 5 miles east. Similar concretions can be found in other parts of the world and on the planet mars but the ones called moqui marbles are specific to the navajo area. Moqui marbles balls pronounced mo key are essentially ironstone and are found at the base of navajo sandstone formations. It s not entirely clear to geologists just how moqui marbles were formed.

The majority of moqui marbles come from utah s navajo sandstone formation now part of grand staircase escalante national monument and in zion national park. They were discovered by the moqui indians and can also be called moqui balls thunderballs or shaman stones. They are found in sizes from small marbles to baseball sizes. They occur in many places in southern utah either embedded in or gathered loosely into puddles on the ground near outcrops of jurassic age navajo sandstone.

Using mochi balls aka shaman stones by. Moqui marbles have been used for centuries by the shamanic tribes of the continents. They re found all over the world but in the u s you ll see them only in utah and parts of arizona. Moqui marbles are spherical dark colored concretions of iron and sandstone commonly range in size from pea size to several inches in diameter although some can be as large as grapefruits.

Moqui marbles are small brownish black balls composed of iron oxide and sandstone that formed underground when iron minerals precipitated from flowing groundwater. They are scattered across the desert floors of arizona and utah appearing in masses. Even if you re not real into rocks the views from the area of grand staircase escalante national monument where moqui marbles can be found are very nice. You can find moki marbles along highway 12 between boulder and escalante look for any wash ravine canyon that has sand in it there are some very obvious ones parking can be hard though.

There is no trail to the marbles themselves but the area offers some other features that make the trek worthwhile. About 4 miles from the main road you come upon a whole bunch of slick rock.