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Colorado National Monument Canyons

The Colorado National Monument is located South of Grand Junction. The Monuments canyons stretch hundreds of miles to the West and the South. Inside the Colorado National Monument there are different sites like the Kissing Couple, Cokes Oven, and 450-foot high Independence Monument. These next few paragraphs will help you learn about the Colorado National Monument Canyons destructive and constructive forces.

A long time ago the canyon was made up of rock that must have been easy to erode by lava that melted away by the rock then the lava came by and made a small canyon so the water came and eroded some of the lava away. Small side canyon of Monument canyon is made of rock and sand when the wind comes through and erodes the sand away and then after a few years it makes a small hole and then after a while it will make a canyon like the Coke Ovens .That is what it made and that is what we see today.

The Colorado National Monument has been mechanically and chemically broke and beaten for years. Rivers deposits sediments threw out the Monument. Rain, wind, gravity and snow destroyed it. We mechanically break the mountain by hiking as we crush the rock. Floods erode away rocs, sand, plants etc. despite the constant breaking the Colorado National Monument will stand for years to come.