Week 6-Desert Valley

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After looking at the Golden Canyon one has to wonder if the flash floods that happen are the only geologic event that has helped shape this wonderful canyon? We see the boulders that dot the area but what about the smaller rocks. Maybe if we dig deeper into what minerals are present we can guesstimate at what helped this form.

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Looking at the gulley's and ridges from the badlands I would like to know just how big they can get to. This extreme way of diverting water that the earth has come to make is beautiful. I would gather information about the earth at the lowest point and figure out if it is the same as the top. If it is and does not contain other minerals or rocks we can conclude that maybe the gulley's are not at its deepest form.

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At what point did the marble start folding upward and what exactly caused the folding. We can look at the dating of the marble itself to figure out when it started to fold and looking at the area we can guess that the plates started to move the marble toward the surface when the mountains were being built.