Monument Valley

Yesterday Barbara, Toby and I visited Monument Valley. These rock formations are beautiful and impressive. These rocks are approximately 570 million years old and were deposited in a shallow sea similar to todays Gulf of Mexico. Sixty five million years ago, as the Rocky Mountains were beginning their rise to the sky, the rocks in Monument Valley were also uplifted to their current elevation. As they reached for the sky, earths processes (erosion) began sculpting them into the amazing rock formations we see today.

After we left Monument Valley we headed to the four corners area where the corners of four states, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico meet. You can literally stand in all four states at one time. But when we got there, there was a long line at the toll both, so we continued on to our destination. As it was we travelled through all four of these states today. Busy day!