EARTHSC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Laccolith, Tropic Shale, Petrified Wood
10 Sep 2017
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Rocks weathered mainly by slope wash (water flowing along the ground surface) and landslides (mass wasting), not by stream erosion. Bryce canyon has a cooler climate than nearby zion, because bryce has an elevation of over 9,000 feet above sea level. During the winter bryce canyon can get heavy snows. Positions of rock features again controlled by fractures (joints) and faults. Different rock types weather differently producing the cliffs and slopes (differential weathering). Bryce canyon is located on the colorado plateau. Bryce makes up the pink cliffs (zion is the white cliffs) of the grand staircase. Most of the rock exposed in bryce canyon is from the paleogene period (eocene epoch) Bryce canyon is more a series of amphitheaters than canyons. Ancient paiute indians saw bryce canyon as the ruins of a buried city, excavated by. Park named for mormon settlers ebenezer and mary bryce. Ebenezer hell of a place to lose a cow .
