Layers of Zion 300
by Sharon Williams Eng
Title
Layers of Zion 300
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Sharon Williams Eng
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Photograph - Photography
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In 1918, the acting director of the newly created National Park Service, Horace Albright, drafted a proposal to enlarge the existing Mukuntuweap National Monument and change the name to Zion National Monument, a name used by the Mormons. On November 20, 1919, the United States Congress established the monument as Zion National Park, the nation's first national park, and it was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the park in 1956.
According to the Zion National Park website, most of the rocks in Zion National Park are sedimentary rocks � made of bits and pieces of older rocks that have been weathered, eroded, and deposited in layers. These rock layers hold stories of ancient environments and inhabitants very different from those found in Zion today. In this distant past, Zion and the Colorado Plateau were near sea level, and were even in a different place on the globe�close to the equator. The rock layers found in Zion today were deposited between approximately 110 �270 million years ago � only in recent geologic time have they been uplifted and eroded to form the scenery of Zion National Park.
This landscape photograph of a section in the park shows the interesting results of the layering. The park is truly interesting and beautiful and well worth visiting.
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