Grand Canyon
“Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” (Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil) This quote explains how beautiful the Grand Canyon is perfectly I think. Let’s look past how breath taking the Grand Canyon is for a moment and dig deeper in how it really became to be interesting landform it is now. So let us begin this enchanted journey to how the Grand Canyon was formed.
“Jones, Charles E.” states what the theory of tectonic plates is:
“According to the theory of plate tectonics the outermost of the earth is made out of lithospheric plates, some 70 to …show more content…
So let’s get into it the Tapeats Sandstone is along a vanished coast line according to "The Geology of the Grand Canyon." There was off shore islands that have been embedded in this layer. Then you have the bright angle shale which from this you get that the ocean was advancing again. Lastly you have the Muav Limestone which is the bottom of the shallow sea. Also the great conformity was also covered up by the tono group. Now the next layer we get to happen 100 million years later after lots of erosion, river channels and valleys were cut into the Muav layer according to the "3-Grand-Canyon-Geology6-2009.pdf." The new layer is called the Temple butte formation, which was deposited as the sea transgressed over the Grand Canyon again and was formed about 385 million years ago. It is basically made up of shallow marine and fluvial deposits. The next layer is the Red wall Limestone, thus as the sea transgressed over the Grand Canyon it formed a shallow sea. The depositing of the red wall Limestone happened 340 million years ago according to "3-Grand-Canyon-Geology6-2009.pdf." Now the next layer is the surprise formation which is the fluvial intertidal zone from the shallow sea. The surprise happened around 320 million years ago, yet it’s the layer with the most and many different kinds from the Paleozoic
“Beautiful doesn't begin to describe it. A flower is beautiful. But this is beautiful the way that a person is beautiful- terrifying with its jagged edges, yet seductive with its crevices that hide so many secrets.” (Jeri Smith-Ready, Requiem for the Devil) This quote explains how beautiful the Grand Canyon is perfectly I think. Let’s look past how breath taking the Grand Canyon is for a moment and dig deeper in how it really became to be interesting landform it is now. So let us begin this enchanted journey to how the Grand Canyon was formed.
“Jones, Charles E.” states what the theory of tectonic plates is:
“According to the theory of plate tectonics the outermost of the earth is made out of lithospheric plates, some 70 to …show more content…
So let’s get into it the Tapeats Sandstone is along a vanished coast line according to "The Geology of the Grand Canyon." There was off shore islands that have been embedded in this layer. Then you have the bright angle shale which from this you get that the ocean was advancing again. Lastly you have the Muav Limestone which is the bottom of the shallow sea. Also the great conformity was also covered up by the tono group. Now the next layer we get to happen 100 million years later after lots of erosion, river channels and valleys were cut into the Muav layer according to the "3-Grand-Canyon-Geology6-2009.pdf." The new layer is called the Temple butte formation, which was deposited as the sea transgressed over the Grand Canyon again and was formed about 385 million years ago. It is basically made up of shallow marine and fluvial deposits. The next layer is the Red wall Limestone, thus as the sea transgressed over the Grand Canyon it formed a shallow sea. The depositing of the red wall Limestone happened 340 million years ago according to "3-Grand-Canyon-Geology6-2009.pdf." Now the next layer is the surprise formation which is the fluvial intertidal zone from the shallow sea. The surprise happened around 320 million years ago, yet it’s the layer with the most and many different kinds from the Paleozoic