Natural wonders (Week 9)

Morning everybody! 

Now that I have presented you with examples of how to write discursive and narrative essays, I would also like to comment on briefly how to create a descriptive essay. 
The following essay is an example of a descriptive text of the well-known Grand Canyon that I am quite sure everybody has heard about this place. Moreover, I will underline the expressions that are used to describe this place. 

The Grand Canyon is a mile-deep gorge in northern Arizona. Scientists estimate the canyon may have formed 5 to 6 million years ago when the Colorado River began to cut a channel through layers of rock. Humans have inhabited the area in and around the canyon since the last Ice Age. The first Europeans to reach the Grand Canyon were Spanish explorers in the 1540s. President Benjamin Harris first protected the Grand Canyon in 1893 as a forest reserve, and it became an official United States National Park in 1919.

The Grand Canyon is located in northern Arizona, northwest of the city of Flagstaff. The canyon measures over 270 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep, making it one of the biggest canyons in the world. This natural landmark formed about five to six million years as erosion from the Colorado River cut a deep channel through layers of rock.

The Grand Canyon contains some of the oldest exposed rock on Earth. The mile-high walls reveal a cross section of Earth’s crust going back nearly two billion years. These rock layers have given geologists the opportunity to study evolution through time.

The oldest known rocks in the canyon, called the Vishnu Basement Rocks, can be found near the bottom of the Inner Gorge. The Vishnu rocks formed about 1.7 billion years ago when magma hardened and joined this region—once a volcanic ocean chain—to the North American continent.

Today, tourists to Grand Canyon National Park can trace the canyon’s geologic history on the Trail of Time, an interpretive exhibit on the park’s South Rim.

https://www.history.com/topics/grand-canyon

In order to improve the description of this popular place, I would add the next information. Firstly, I would describe the type of climate of this place in order to depict the landscape in which it is encountered. The Grand Canyon is set in a desert, therefore it has dry weather conditions. Secondly, I would describe the colors of the rocks which are very characteristic of this place. The clay color of the Grand Canyon make of this place a striking one for tourists. 

Thirdly but not last, I would provide information about the shape of the rocks. As more specific you are describing a particular place, as more appealing your text can be! 

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This week apart from researching information to write my TFG for college, I've been looking for jobs in the USA for this summer. I'm looking forward to going for a new adventure!