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Zack and Anthony

The Grand Cayon from the South Kiabab Trail

The Grand Cayon is the biggest cayon in the U.S. It is tall and wide and is one of the Seven natural wonders of the world. The grand cayon looked unreal it looked like it was a painting. At the Grand Cayon we hiked on the South Kaibab about 3/4 of a mile the way down. We walked through Coconino Sandstone and saw some Shist.the Grand Cayon used to be a great mountian range and it use to be under a big ocean. The grand cayon was formed by deposition, uplift, downcut, and erosion. The crand cayon is still fairly young it is only a few million years old. The fossils from plants and animals in the Grand Cayon help scientist determine the age of the rock and the environment that existed. The law of superposition in the Grand Cayon says the oldest rocks are at the bottom of the cayon and the youngest rocks are at the top. I thought the Grand Cayon was a very fun, exciting, and interesting place because of how big it looked and how much you could lear from the rock and the rock layers.

Sunset Crater Volcano

Sunset crater is a large volcano. The area around the volcano is covered with hardened lava. At sunset crater we were behind schedule so we did not have enough time to hike up and see the volcano, but we did walk to the base of sunset crater. Sunset crater is a cynder cone volcano.it is one of the youngest volcanoes in the U.S. Sunset cxrater is named for its brightly colored scoria deposits on the cone. It is in the San Francisico volacano field. Sunsety crater was formed by series of eruptions sometime in A.D. I thought sunset crater was interesting because it was a very large volcano and it was coverd with dried old lava.

river rafting on the colorado river

The Colorado River is big, long and curvy, interesting, and very cold! It was a very fun place to go. Along the Colorado River we saw many different rock layers and formations and saw different plants and animals too. We started at the Glenn canyon dam and worked our way a few miles down the river. The Colorado river is what eroded the Grand canyon cutting through the rocks. This river stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. It is 1,450 miles long, and stretches through 7 states in the U.S. and 2 in México. The first people to travel on this river were John Wesley Powell and his crew. It has many rapids and has parts of the river that stretch off into other states. Many Native Americans have also depended on this mighty river to survive. I thought that the Colorado river was a very exciting place to visit because of all the cool stuff there.

Wupatki national Mounument.

Wupatki National Monument are ancient Native American ruins. They have different rooms and windows made completely my stones. They also had a ,meeting circle stage a batle arena ,and a blow hole, or a ancient A.C. system. At the Wupatki National Mounument we walked close to the stone ruins and got to see the battle area, blow hole, and meeting stage. It is belived that the ancient native american tribes who made theese ruins were ancesters to the Hopi and Zuni tribes. The area around the monument also has dried lava on the hills. There are different apartment like places in the Wupatki ruins that were used for different jobs one was for living in and another was for garbage. The circular meeting area was built with the circular design for a reason. It was built that way so that sound was more audible for everyone sitting in so they didn’t have to talk loud. The battle area is where they would battle and play ancient Native American sports and games. And the blow hole was a hole in the ground that blkew cold air up from the ground. I liked the Wupatki National mounument the best because I thought it was cool how they build everthing for a reason and how it is still standing today.