“REFLECTION”

This project helped me to understand more of what Geology is, by having to find what place you

would be searching and what type of evidence you should be looking for and once you find that

place you can see what is there on that land you notice the types of different rocks, landform,

mountain range, and indents to the mountains and know how that was formed overtime.

Because I really did not know what all of Geology entailed, it was somewhat difficult for me to

know what I was really looking for even after doing some research on what I had decide to do

for my research paper. “The Point of the Mountain.”

The Point of the Mountain turn out to move more toward the Bonneville shoreline that I

ended up doing for my research paper, this became very interesting on how Lake Bonneville

was formed and how the Bonneville shoreline was also formed, as for the Point of the Mountain

it was formed off the Bonneville shoreline. Lake Bonneville was a huge lake that had existed

about 13,000 to 30,000 years ago. About 18,000 years ago a shift of wetter and colder

conditions in the last Ice Age triggered Lake Bonneville’s expansion of immense volume of

water. Then the climate changed to warmer and drier conditions causing the lake to shrink.

Which then Lake Bonneville shoreline did dried up and land developers have built on the some

of the land and for the Point of the Mountain on the far west end of the eastern section is a hot

spot for para gliding and hang gliding.