Monument+Canyons+2B

Intro The Colorado National Monument is usury a hot place but beautiful. It’s found near downtown Grand Junction and a 23 mile road called rim rock road. With its bright red and very high peaks the close highest elevation of the canyons (the top) is 5,787 feet. The walls of the canyons are made of sheer sandstone but the vertical walls of the canyons are made of Wingate sandstone and the rimes are made of yenta sandstone. The Colorado National Monument marks the northern rim of the uncompahgre plateau. May 24, 1911 was the day that Colorado National Monument became a reality by the act of congress. After then Ute Indians were forced to leave western Colorado in the 1880’s, the settlers took over the grand valley. The Colorado national monument was first discovered by John Otto.



Constructive

Most of the rock that is forming the wall is made out of different kinds of sandstone which is sedimentary rock. Some of those rocks are Wingate, and Kayenta Sandstone. The two specific types are made from compaction, which is two pieces of sediment are smashed twogether.

Destructive Water drained into the grand valley, it came from the Uncompahgre plateau. That water carved the canyons it must have token at least a few million years the water and the snow (weathering) wore the canyons down piece by piece and erosion also helped by making rocks fall from high peaks and the weather moving the rocks from one place to another.