Independence+Monument 2A

The Monsterous Independence Monument
Independence Monumentent is located in the Colorado National Monument. The Monument rests at a monstrous height of 550 feet. Independence Monument has bright red rock on its base. That rock is called chinle. Chinle is a very soft rock that will break away easily. John Otto and his wife loved to carve some of the words from the Declaration of Independence on a flat rock not so far away from Independence Monument. The next paragraph you will see is about constructive forces which will include sediments, deposit, volcanic, and lava.

Constructive Forces
Independence Monument rest’s on soft land. Its base is made from three kinds of rocks, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock and igneous rock. But the Monument is mostly formed by a special type of sedimentary rock, a bright red rock by the name of Chinle shale. Chinle shale is a very soft rock that will break away very easily when eroded away by wind, water, landslides, ice, etc. Sense Chinle shale is a very soft sedimentary rock any lose pieces of the rock will break away from the five hundred fifty foot high monument and be eroded together creating lager and/or smaller boulders and rocks. A long time ago strong forces such as wind, water landslides, ice, etc. in the Earth’s crust forced the land upwards forming Independence Monument, with different types of sediment, that still form the Monument, holding it together. 

Destructive Forces
Independence Monument is shaped and still being shaped near our Colorado National monument. This land mark is being destroyed (weathered) by water, wind, and ice over millions of years. Those forces have been destroying our monument the water and wind running and pushing up against the rock pushing it of the monument crushing the rock against other rocks, in the winter it snows the snow forms cracks then the cracks get bigger until a part of the monument comes falling off. And maybe in about a couple million years the monument will be just a small hill going from two hours of climbing to at least one hour.