Mount+Garfield+and+the+Bookcliffs 1B

Introduction Who am I? I am near the Colorado River and i come through the Grand valley near Palisade. I am Mount Garfield and the Bookcliffs. Mount Garfield and the Bookcliffs extend over 175 miles long from Palisade to the Price Canyon of Utah. It’s a place that has no growing vegetation. It has plateau scenery and the height of the cliffs is from 1000 to 2000 feet tall and has the elevation of 6,765 feet. Mount Garfield is mostly made up of Mancos shale but is capped with Mesa Verde a layer of sandstone.

Destructive Forces

Mount Garfield is in the book cliff area. Most of the rock is Mancos shale, a soft, gray rock that’s easily eroded.1.5 to 3 million years ago, there was 300 to 500 inches of precipitation cut the cliff face making the slopes. Here, boulders of the Mesa Verde sandstone have been broken from the rim and lodge in the soft, sloping cliff face



Constructive Forces

The mount Garfield is made out of sedimentary rock called Mancos shale. The Mancos shale is made out of sediment was deposited in the bottom of the sea. The Mancos shale is a soft gray rock that is easily eroded. The mount Garfield has Mancos shale but there is another rock on the top, that is called, the Mesa Verde Sandstone.