The Rocky Mountains: National Park In Colorado

Rock Canyon is an excellent site for geologic research and has been investigated by geologists from around Utah and neighboring states. With outstanding extrusions of quartzite, tillite and limestone, it’s a favored destination for hikers, rock climbers and scientists. The quartzite is considered the most unique feature of Rock Canyon as it’s one of the few clear and distinct examples of the sedimentary processes involved with a shallow marine setting. The tillite beneath the quartzite draws attention to the ancient glaciers to the past. In conjunction with the active Wasatch Fault found at its doorstep, Rock Canyon is an important place in Utah for geologists.

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, extends for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km), that covers land in two North American countries! With a distance of 3,000 miles, the Rockies must have a variety of physical features and landscapes that makes it an attractive area to tour and explore. However, all of the human interest in this mountain range could come at a devastating cost. Disturbances such as resource extraction, tourism/settlement, and farming in the Rocky Mountain region must cease because they are causing major, irreversible environmental degradation.

United States has a lot of astounding natural attractions. But some of them are losing their rare beauty. Those attractions that are losing their beauty are in great need of help. Some natural attractions in the United States that are in the greatest need of conserving are the Everglades, Chesapeake Bay, Chihuahuan Desert, and the Northern Great Plains. The main reason why these places are in danger are because of humans.

The painting by Albert Bierstadt “Rocky Mountain, Lander’s Peak” is truly magnificent. Its high horizon line portrays a wide, vast piece of land containing a Native American village besides a lake, sitting below the mountains in the background. The atmospheric perspective is present here with the mountains being painted lighter, and not as detailed, than the rest of the painting. There is a pretty prominent presence of a one point perspective, with the vanishing point being the light, oasis-looking, waterfall in the distance. The colors vibrancy are dependent on the clouds in the sky, being it is clearly not a bright and sunny day, giving a more realistic feel to the whole composition. The focus point, the waterfall, is painted with bright

Mesa Verde National Park on the Colorado Plateau contains many geological aspects of interest, including its sedimentary rock layers, its canyons, its alcoves utilized by ancient people and how these alcoves were formed. Mesa Verde National Park is located in the southwest corner of Colorado, close to the Four Corners area, on top of a high mesa overlooking the Mancos River (Harris et al. 2004). The park, covering 81 square miles, consists of several main sedimentary formations that are characteristic to the park (Encyclopedia Britannica 2015). Canyons are carved into the sedimentary rock, with the cave dwellings found high on their steep walls. These dwellings are an especially unique aspect to the Mesa Verde National Park, and are built out of large alcoves. The alcoves were produced by weathering and erosion of the sedimentary rock type. To better understand how these alcoves formed, we must understand the geology of Mesa Verde National Park and how it has developed over history.

Mesa Verde National Park, located in Montezuma County, Colorado, was established in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. This United States landmark was designated for the preservation of several Puebloan archeological sites and the vast geologic history exhibited within the 52,485 acres of land occupied by Mesa Verde. The Ancestral Puebloans, or Mesa Verdeans, associated with the archeological sites of Mesa Verde National Park, lived in the Mesa Verde region from the mid-sixth century to the end of the thirteenth century.[3]

In the book The Great Smokies From Natural Habitat to National Park, one can see the true passion and application that the author, Daniel S. Pierce, holds for one of the United States most prized possession, the Great Smoky Mountains. Like most, he is intrigued by the incomparable beauty and thrill of the wilderness, with his main goal being to show that the propose of this national park isn’t just to protect undeveloped land but more to reclaim the wildness and all it stands for. He looks in-depth to the different land use of the smokies over time and the people who have called it home for centuries with his lager focus on the movement to turn the Great Smokies in to the national park it is today.

I believe that the rock cycle has an impact on Colorado because of the sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock cycles that lead up to the formation of the Earth’s mountains, and terrains. These different steps lead up to the rock cycle. To turn igneous to sedimentary, they are easily eroded, it breaks down to sediment. Sedimentary to metamorphic, sedimentary rocks are subject to pressure so it produces a chemical reaction. Metamorphic to igneous, when metamorphic rock gets hot, it melts turning it into igneous rock and this precedes the rock cycle.

The mountains of central Appalachia have always been known for, almost exclusively, the booming coal deposits that inhabit it, as well as the controversy that comes with the industry. The controversy that involves the wildlife, ecosystems, and residents of the area is one with fine lines, gray areas, and more than simply a good and evil side. The mountains of Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee are also home to some of the most extensive biodiversity in our country, as well as rich cultural heritage that extends to the earliest years of our nation. Everything that makes central Appalachia unique and identifiable is exactly what they might be in jeopardy of losing.

Artists and scientists are subtle and devoted in depicting the nature of reality. Innovation in the architecture scenes have been greatly driven by the advancements in science and technology such as the Pont du Gard. For a building to be certified living, it was required for it to produce the amount of energy it consumed yearly and to capture rain water for all its use in 12months. Painters in the 19th century were faced with a situation that endangered nature itself. A painter by the name Albert Bierstadt painted The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak that caused a mass thrill that associated the canvas with the wealth of the natural resources. His paintings made the congress study geological features and mineral resources along the transcontinental

I am Senator Key Pittman, a stalwart Democrat, from Nevada and I am for the construction of the Boulder Canyon Project. I was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi to well-to-do parents and educated through private tutors, and at the Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee is where I studied law. While mining for gold in Alaska, I married Mimosa June Gates, who was from Eureka, California. We moved in 1901 to Tonopah, Nevada, a mining town and I speculated in mining ventures while also practicing law. In my early career, I focused on Nevada’s silver mining industry. I served from 1913 to 1917 as secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus, as secretary of the Platform Committee of the Democratic National Convention

The Appalachian Mountains were formed an estimated 480 million years ago, being one of the first plate collisions constructing the supercontinent Pangea. During the Paleozoic Era, the region was submerged, layers of sediment and carbonate rock began to form on top of the already submerging sea bottom. In the Ordovician Period, the Appalachian passive margin evolved into a plate boundary when another plate collided with and sank the North American plate, creating the Appalachians. The Mountains continued to form as volcanoes grew, plate collisions, all while the supercontinent formed. Pangea began its separation 220 million years ago, halting the creation of many mountain ranges. The Appalachian Mountains had almost flattened completely out,

The Colorado River is a very important water source for the Southwest and its people. But I think the river is most important for the farmers.

Describe: Albert Bierstadt's The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863) and David P. Bradley's, Indian Country Today (1997) are created by different authors, possible for different reasons, but they have a similar subject matter. They both picture nature. Bierstadt's painting shows the landscape of the Rocky Mountains, hence the name.

Today is the day! I get to visit the Rocky Mountains. I have never seen the Rocky Mountains. Also, I am going on their 100th anniversary. The Rocky Mountains have been there for over 300 million years. In 2015, Rocky Mountain National Park was the third most visited national park with over 4.1 million visitors. I have to get there early because it will be packed. The temperature can drop up to 20 degrees on top of the mountains, so I better bring a jacket.