2. PIKES PEAK THE MOUNTAIN
• Pikes Peak is located in
El Paso County, CO.
• The mountain rises
14,000 feat above sea
level
• The mountains original http://www.colorado-springs-vacation.com/pikes-peak.html
name was El Capitan
• The mountain was
formed over 1.5 billion
years ago
3. CREATION OF LANDFORM THROUGH EARTH
PROCESSES
• The mountain was
formed through the
process of uplifting
• Erosion and weathering
helped with the removal
of soil and rocks
• The uplifting process
resulted in the mountain
being covered with a http://www.iapetusbeat.com/
thick layer of soil and
softer rock
4. EROSION AND WEATHERING
• The movement of huge
glaciers sculpted the
mountain
• The glaciers took place
at the peak of the
mountain
• The glaciers lasted http://www.americansouthwest.net/colorado
approximately 1,000 /rocky-mountain/half-mountain_l.html
years.
5. THE ICE AGE…
• The ice age that
occurred was so
powerful that it
scrapped out of the
rock
• The rivers of ice caused
the U-shaped canyons
• The ordinary streams
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caused the V-shaped of_Colorados_Waldo_Canyon_fire_Its_in_our_ne
valleys ighborhoo/
6. ELEMENTS THAT HELPED WITH THE CREATION OF PIKE
PEAK
• Chemical concretion
and pressure are what
turned the mountain
into sedimentary rock
• The mountain was
originally covered by a
shallow sea
http://www.iapetusbeat.com/2012_08_2
• Sediments were 4_archive.html
collected up until
40,000 feet
7. WORKS CITED
• "Colorado." World News. World News, 2012. Web. 29 Nov.
2012.
• Crossley, John. "Pictures of Rocky Mountain National Park in
Colorado: Half Mountain and Pikes Peak." Pictures of Rocky
Mountain National Park in Colorado: Half Mountain and Pikes
Peak. N.p., 2000. Web. 29 Nov. 2012.
• "Pikes Peak - America's Mountain." Pikes Peak. N.p., 2008.
Web. 29 Nov. 2012.
