Devils Tower Wyoming – 20
Monday, May 11th, 2009The Devils Tower Wyoming is a mountain originally made famous in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It has a very distinctive look with a flat top and deep ridges all along its size sides. One movie character built models of it in mashed potatoes and dirt. Humans and aliens met there. No aliens have ever really visited there, but it’s still a cool place.
First there will be an explanation. Devils Tower Wyoming doesn’t refer to a town or city, it refers to a mountain. You can check out maps of it at the University of Wisconsin website. Understanding the elevation of the tower is important. That’s incredible, as the saying goes.
Now for a second Devils Tower Wyoming point. It is written without the apostrophe. Proper English writing would place an ’s at the end of devil. But don’t worry, the name as written is correct. There is no apostrophe.
Devils Tower Wyoming was declared a national monument in 1906. Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt did it. He wasn’t known as Teddy to family or close friend. The Panama Canal treaty was also one of his ideas. The national monument encompasses 5.45 square kilometers. That’s 1374 acres.
The Devils Tower Wyoming stands 1267 feet above the surrounding land. That’s almost a mile above sea level. That’s big. That hasn’t stopped people from climbing it. 4000 people a year, 1% of the 400,000 who travel there, climb the tower. Mount Everest is a much more challenging climb. Of course, the most dangerous part of climbing Mount Everest is getting down the mountain. That’s because so many people climb that there is a line, an actual queue, to make the descent. Most of those who are hurt are hurt because of exposure to the elements while waiting to get down the mountain. That doesn’t happen at the Devils Tower.
The Triassic Period saw the start of the Devils Tower Wyoming. It includes various types of rocks from sandstone, to silt stone, and shale. This combination makes for quite a colorful disposition.
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