For many years, I have hiked the very popular Devil’s Backbone located in Loveland, Colorado about 45-60 minutes away from my house. It is a pretty “easy” hike when speaking of other trails that I have been a part of. At first glance, one can see that Devil’s Backbone is relatively long when speaking in terms of the overall rock feature itself. It somewhat resembles what looks like a backbone or takes a vertebra like a shape. Although the picture does not do the best justice, the rock itself takes a longer shape almost perfectly linear in fact. Additionally, another feature of this rock is very smooth in nature. From Chapter 1 of our textbook, this sort of resembles that of what sedimentary rock would look like. Sedimentary rock is formed by tiny segments that ultimately bind together to form a rock that is pictured. The other pretty obvious feature about this is that there are clear signs of weathering on the rock. This meaning that a river probably ran through this area of land millions of years ago and the sediments that were flowing through collected in this spot. With a river running through this land, it would give the rock it’s smooth appearance. The rock itself looks like it would be sandstone as it is brownish in color. In chapter 7 of our textbook
it talks about the sandstone particle shape in which states that if they are rigid in nature, the traveling distance was short. On the opposite side of the argument, if they travel a long distance they are often times more smooth. From this lesson, it is apparent that this sand traveled quite some distance.
Donovan Olson
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