Download Formation of Bryce Canyon National Park: Deposition, Earthquake, and Weathering and more Schemes and Mind Maps English in PDF only on Docsity! ES PT SCRIPT FOR BRYCE CANYON Cue in 3…2…1 RAPHAEL: Good day to all I’m (Name) and this is my partner… STAR: (Name) the reporters of group 5 and we are here to talk about the Geomorphic process of Bryce Canyon. *(Power point Introduction of Bryce Canyon)* RAPHAEL: But first let’s have a background of Bryce Canyon, Bryce Canyon National Park, is a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, it was designated as a National Monument in June 1923, and later as a National Park in September 1928. It was set aside to preserve and protect an incredible collection of geomorphological shapes such as, crimson-colored hoodoos which are spire-shaped rock formations, fins, pinnacles, canyons, and mazes. The intense erosion of the colorful sandstones, mudstones, and limestones of the Tertiary age Claron Formation left behind these fantastical remnants on the landscape. Located in south- central Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park encompasses about 56 square miles (35,835 acres). *(Second Power point Presentation) * STAR: Now let us move on to its Process on how it is formed and one of which is Deposition which is an Exogenic Process The first step to create Bryce Canyon’s hoodoos involves the deposition of flat lying rocks. Bryce Canyon’s rocks reveal stories of an ancient lake and floodplain system, which first appeared around 50 million years ago. This low lying area was surrounded by areas of higher topography to the west, which encouraged streams to strip particles from these highlands and deposit them into the low lying basin area. These tiny particles accumulated and cemented together to create Bryce Canyon’s rocks (limestones, dolostones, mudstones, siltstones and sandstones). RAPHAEL: Bryce Canyon’s rocks formed near sea level. Bryce Canyon sits at a maximum elevation of 9,115 ft (2,778 meters) above sea level. How did such large bodies of rock appear to travel such a tremendous distance in elevation? In order to understand how such a dynamic event has occurred, Let’s continue to listen on the next slide and see how Plate Tectonics has played its role in Bryce Canyon’s formation. *(Third Power point Presentation) * STAR: The second Process in forming Bryce Canyon is Earthquake which is an Endogenic Process Plate Tectonics can be thought of as the giant puzzle pieces that collectively create the surface of our entire planet. The Earth’s plates are in constant motion. Sometimes these massive pieces of Earth crash into one another, and that is exactly what happened here. The North American plate and the Farallon plate came into head on collision As a result, the Farallon Plate was forced underneath the North American Plate. This process is known as subduction.
