Sextant, The

Seen from the base, it's a gothic spire which tapers from a wide base oriented east-west, to a fantastical array of complex features; at the summit, the north-south aspect is a narrow sliver of sculpted rock. In some of the tuff-breccia sections, there are numerous protruding "chicken-heads," some more akin to dragon-heads, or snake-heads; additionally criss-crossing the formation are weathered dikes of an intrusive limestone-type rock which often are shaped like thick slabs of flagstone, all pretty-much oriented the same.