The Boston Herald reported that Scalia had made an obscene gesture. Scalia responded with a scathing letter to the editor, accusing the newspaper staff of watching too many episodes of The Sopranos. He said the gesture wasn't obscene, but dismissive.
Monument Valley has been eroding for the last 50 million years. Once this area was a flat plateau of sandstone layered with shale. As the Colorado Plateau rose, vertical faults were formed and the plateaus slide upwards from each other. The faulting exposed the lower levels of shale to erosion.
The Colorado River and its tributaries formed the canyon as the Colorado Plateau was being geological â¦ ly uplifted. The erosion occurred fairly recently, starting around 17 million years ago, but the geologic record exposed covers around 1.8 billion years. Erosion is the moving of material from one place to another.he Grand Canyon was formed as the Colorado River cut into the gradually uplifting landscape. The Grand Canyon is the product of millions of years of erosion and weathering.