Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Hubby and I took a short drive to a nearby national park. We drove highway 50 and turn right off the highway and drove through the hills. Hubby wanted me to look for "flints" which are found in this particular mountain that we had been to. He was told by someone that these "flints" were little pieces of stones that were once used to make arrowheads by Indians hundreds of years ago. before we started looking for the flints hubby took some beautiful pics of the Grand Mesa.
These three photos shown here are pics of the Grand Mesa. We were on a hill overlooking this beautiful mountain Grand Mesa. 
The Grand Mesa is a large geologic formation in western Colorado in the United States. The largest mesa in the world, it has an area of about 500 square miles (1300 km²) and stretches for about 40 miles (65 km) east of Grand Junction between the Colorado River and the Gunnison River, its tributary to the south. Geologically the mesa is the result of a hard volcanic basalt layer on its top. This volcanic layer, created during the birth of the modern Rocky Mountains approximately 30 million years ago, suppressed erosion compared to the surrounding sedimentary rock layers, which suffered rapid downcutting from the Colorado and the Gunnison.
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