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Canyons of the Monument  by Abby R., D'Artagnan H., and Emerson H.  We look to the monument. There is so much beauty in this place of wonder. With its canyons we have explored we understand how this canyon was built and destroyed. Yet the canyons that amaze us were not built over night. No, it took many, many years to complete this sandstone (sand stone is made up of sand) structure which is in most places very rough. In this page it will describe how this sturdy canyon floor of solid of ocean debris was made. But for now, I hope you will learn what you need to know in our explanation of how the Colorado canyons were made and destroyed.

Constructive forces The rock on the monument is made of sand stone and shale, ﻿sand and mudd were squeezed in to cracks and lifted up sowly. . Found in (Google Earth)

Destructive forces The Colorado National Monument is full of canyons that can be seen by walking on trails that surround the canyons and that go through the canyons themselves. But how where they made? What carved out the tons of rock? I hope that this paragraph answers some of your questions. One of the biggest contributing factors for the erosion of the monument is the snow and rain that seeped into cracks and expanded as ice which separated huge chunks of rock thus creating easily moved and destroyed by other things like rivers. Many miniature rivers run through the canyons of the National monument that took more huge chunks of rock into the Colorado and Gunnison rivers leaving big canyons in their wake.