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 The Roan Plateau

The Roan Plateau is a beautiful place that was formed from a once depositing ocean. The Roan Plateau is located between Rifle and Grand Junction on interstate 70.the Roan Plateau towers 3,000 feet above the highway. There are animals that live in the Roan Plateau such as horses, elk, and bears. The animals live there among vegetation with brad stands on the wetter north-facing the slopes, Engelmann spruce and sub alpine far invaded aspen stands.

The Roan Plateaus constructive forces

The Roan plateau has been on the news for many years now. Due to oil-bearing layers of the Green river formation of the ocean that once laid on that land. The sandstone and shale that was left there, from the ocean that was on the land, was left in massive cliffs at the rim composed the Green river.

The Roan Plateau's Destructive Forces

The Roan Plateau has been eroded by one type of erosion and that is water. The Roan Plateau’s valleys and hills end suddenly in the 1500 foot deep canyons cut by the East Fork and East Middle Fork of Parachute Creek on the plateau’s right edge. A 200 foot waterfall marks the East Fork of the drop off from the Plateau. This geology, with high waterfalls dropping off the edge of the plateau, creates perfect abandoned conditions for native Colorado River.