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Grand Canyon The grand canyon was a a vast of red, purple, and orange cliffs, fault lines, and peaks. The first activity we did was walk along the south rim and stop to take notes and look at fossils. The second part was when we walked along Bright Angel Trail, we stoped to look at fault lines and hieroglyphs. The last event we did was watch the sunset over the grand canyon. The Grand Canyon started of with the Colorado River. The rock eventually eroded away 5-7 million years ago due to wind and water. To this day the canyon is still eroding. The canyon is at an elevation of 7,000 ft. high at the south rim. This leads to a pine forest. The elevation at the river is 2,200 ft. high. The closer you get to the river the hotter it gets. There are many sponge, coral, and shell fossils in and along the Grand Canyon because of the water. I thought that the area was very beautiful. If you looked into the canyon it looked just like a painting.
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 * This is looking down into the canyon at**
 * ooh ahh point nearing sunset.**

** ﻿ **  Colorado River trip The Colorado River was a smooth flowing river with very few rapids. The were tall walls surrounding the river. When we got to the rafting entrance we had to get our bags checked and then switch buses. After that we went through a 2 mile tunnel the runs through the mountains. After we came out of the tunnel we walked to the boarding area and got on our boats. When we were on the river we stopped many times to look and talk about rock formations. Then we stopped on a beach along the river. When we where done with that we kept going on the river. Then we got to the end of the river we stopped at Lee’s farie, the only area along the river that you could take a horse across. The cliffs and rock formations were almost all made out of sandstone, there was little limestone. The average death toll is 1 person per year. I thought the river was a really cool place. The petro glyphs were really interesting.
 * This is one of the many fault lines **
 * we saw along the trip. **


 * This is one of the clay houses within **
 * Wupatki national monument. **

Wupatki Wupatki national monument was an old Indian village. There was a ballcourt, a blowhole, and a keva. All the houses were made from bricks and stones. When we got there we had a talk about the history of the area. Then we went down to the ballcourt and talked about more history. Then we went and looked at the area. In the ballcourt they played a type of game like basketball. The blowhole either blows out air or sucks in air. They are still growing plants that the Indians planted back then. They get the seeds from in Tucson. The Indians only died of about 900 years ago. There are some of the oldest buildings in Arizona in Wupatki. There were two major houses we saw. One was a 40 room 4 storhigh house. If you were in the keva the people could hear you speak from the observation point. Even if you said it in a hushed voice. I thought that the creators of the keva were very intelligent. My thoughts about the site are that it was a very interesting place. My favorite part was the keva. I would really like to go back again.

This is one of the cinder cone volcanoes at sunset crater.

Sunset Crater Sunset crater was a large area filled by volcanoes, volcanic rocks, and cinders. The big rocks were called lava bombs. If you rub the rocks you will get cuts on your hands. When we arrived we had a talk about the different kinds of lavas, and volcanoes. Then we walked along a path to Sunset Crater. Then we arrived at sunset crater and learned about it. The two types of lava that make up he landscape are, a’a and pahoehoe. A’a is smooth like butter, while pahoehoe is rough and jagged. The most common type of volcano is a cinder cone. This is where the whole volcano is cinders. Cinders are small grain sized volcanic rocks. In the 30’s they wanted to blow up sunset crater in a movie but they made it a national monument just in time. If it was blown up it might not have been here today.I thought that Sunset Crater was really cool. My favorite thing was that the whole volcano is made of cinders. One funny thing I learned was that once our tour guide lost a group of kids for an hour among the rocks.