Mount+Garfield+and+the+Bookcliffs 3A

A common mountain the citizens of Grand Junction often look upon and take for granted. At a staggering 6,765 feet Mt Garfield is probably the most popular mountains known to Grand Junction citizens around. On average it takes 3 hours to hike this master, but the view is impeccable. Mt. Garfield has had and still is being eroded and rebuilt 24 hours a day and 7 days a week by constructive and destructive forces.
 * Moutain Garfield **

Mountain Garfield is made of Mancos shale also soft gray rock that can erode in a snap. Mesa Verde sandstone is a cap that is holding all of the rock, sand from eroding away. Shale is made by mud that is mixed with clay materials and tiny fragments. Sand stone is made of bit of sand that is squished together over long periods of time.

Nearly all of this height is Mancos shale, soft gray rock that is easily eroded. Grand Valley, carpeted with Mancos shale above a base of Dakota sandstone. Was cut by the Colorado River. The surrounding unprotected shale is easily eroded. Resulting in the boulders being supported by a narrow column of shale, detached from the rest of the cliff. Some of these spires, or Palisades , rise as much as 60 feet above the remaining slope. The eastern end of Grand valley, near Palisade , is a fruit producing reigon. A desert – like climate and westerly winds that are warmed by compression as they try to enter the funnel –shaped.