Show layers point up observing prospectors will notice otice that the sedimentary layers point up to tillo mountains on all sides the lasal blue and henry mountains are a 8 part of this same up i lift as are shiprock alhambra and all of the spires of lgon igneous us rock found over the plateau the tb above mountains and monolith monoliths are frozen that never reached the air the molten material started up and slowly pushed the overlying strata up with it but never broke the crust this all means that sedimentary deposits were at least a mile thick over the top of these mountains at one time about years ago some unusual things happen when nature gets these slow pains the uncompahgre uplift caused by forces beyond human capacity to understand came ro 0 o slowly that I 1 the colorado gunnison and dolores were able to cut canyons right through the rising bed rocks this accounts for or the dolores river crossing paradox valley instead of flowing down the valley it also explains canyon which has nas two mouths and no head no doubt the gunnison or the dolores river flowed through the un sweep at one time and was able to cut the canyon as the granites goranites gra came up eventually the uplift came too last fast and the river was forced to find another outlet to the colorado the rivers flow ia in all durec continued next pare page last major geologic change on earth marked end of tropics here uon mons and are still chiseling chi vir boua canyon canyons out of bulted arata strata the dolores river or ln in tance otance flows south then north k aad n d the then n we west r t to the color colorado apparently pi patently ly with complete dig disregard aid to or r the lay of the land all th these e e waters eventually gather into CM the colorado river and for thou gands of have cd ad to dig the grand canyon the daddy of them all it has no tri but aries irom the south and this Is another unusual phenomenon caused by the colorado river cut ing fing through the sloping strata as a it was elevated at a right angle 0 o the h e river B s course the goose reek necks of the san juan are e cut t la to more or less level strata |