Monument+Canyons+3Aa

Colorado national monument canyons The Colorado National Monument has many, many rocks that stand all on there own.For millions of years the Colorado river has been carving at the Monument. Some people believed the Monument to be unaccesable to man kind. The Monument has many, many canyons to hike on and look at,﻿the Monument has been a gift to man kind for this many years and many to come. 

The canyons of the Colorado National Monument were formed by many different types of constructive forces. The Uncompahgre Uplift shed sediments filling the surrounding basins, leveling the landscape. More sediment coated both basins. For millions of years the leveled land acquired layers and layers of new sediment deposits. Water carved narrow spaces in the metamorphic, schist, and sedimentary rock. As the water constantly put pressure on the rock, it cut it. That’s what formed the canyons. The water that cut the canyons mixed with soil and created a cementation that is another factor that helped build the canyons. Compaction of sediments built layers of sedimentary rock. The Uncompahgre sediments rose above the basins. The Erosion that started long ago has still not ended yet though.

The Colorado National Monument’s sandstone, granite, gneiss and schist have been eroded for thousands of years, creating deep and wide canyons filled with strange attractions like independence monument, the kissing couple and the coke ovens. The Colorado national Monument was eroded by water that pushed and chipped off pieces of the rock. It broke off more and more rocks until finally, when all the water dried up it left us canyons, arches and rocks that seem like they stand in thin air. The Colorado national Monument is still being chipped away to this day.