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Mount Garfield Made by: Sarah Frank, Dakota Harding, and Aaron Landis Block 2b

It is the best place for people to learn. Mount Garfield is part of the book cliffs, stretching 200 miles through Colorado all the way to Price, Utah, rapidly cutting through Palisade, Colorado. With its many layers of Dakota and Cretaceous sandstone, with Mancos shale, it gives the impression of books on a shelf from the sky. The Colorado River running through the Bookclifs attracts many Grand Junction hikers which climb the 6,765 foot mountain.

Mount Garfield has been shaped by destructive forces. The slopes are made of shale, which wind and water can easily erode. Erosion moves the bottom away faster and more quickly than the top. The reason is because the top is made of a stronger rock called Mesa Verde sandstone, so it made tall cliffs on top of the mountain. In some places, boulders are held up by a narrow column of shale that causes spires or palisades. Mount Garfield

(Aaron Landis)

Mount Garfield is at least 200 miles with the Colorado River running through it. This mountain is North of Grand Junction Colorado and continues to Price Utah. There are many kinds of rock in Mount Garfield including Craterous sandstone, Dakota sandstone, Mancos shale; it has soft rock that can be eroded away by wind, water, and gravity. There are boulders that are held up by a small layer of shale. Mount Garfield is also known as the ‘Book Cliffs ‘and has wild horses that live there and coal mines that are still visible but are now capped for safety.