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Colorado National Monument

The canyons of the monument are named The Fruita Canyon, The Lizard Canyon, The Monument Canyon, and The Gold Star Canyon, The Ute Colorado National Monument Canyon, The Red Canyon, and The No Through fare Canyon. Water draining into the Grand Valley from the plateau has curved the canyons.



There are many different erosion types. Wind, water, and glaciers are the main erosion types. Most wind carves the canyons. Water snakes its way through the bottom of the canyon forming different patterns and sand deposits. Gravity forces the rocks to stay on the canyon floor but some get ripped from where they were (by erosion). Sometimes gravity breaks the rock in two, breaking them smaller and smaller until they are very small. Weathering is also a destructive force. With the constant forces of water, freezing, and thawing, it starts to erode the rocks away. Tip of rock fond in the monument is entered sandstone, Kayenta formation, wingate sandstone, chinle Formation, Precambrian gneiss, schist granite. The mountain is created by cracks in the mountain That pole the mountain and the canyons uses made.