Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree

FUN FACTS

National Park

DEFINITION; A National Park is an area set aside by a national government for the preservation of the natural environment.

These plants absorb as much water as possible after summer rains or winter. These are actually not trees, Joshua Trees are really a kind of agave plant! The plants are expected to vanish because of climate change and are currently endangered. :(

FUN FACTS - Joshua Trees were the first protected plant from the California wilderness association! - There Are 57 Mammals Species Living Inside the Park! - They are actually not trees!

-The iconic Skull Rock Formation- -The Heart Rock Formation-

Joshua Tree National Parks iconic structures were made when the dense Farallon plate and the Continental plate converged leaving the Farallon plate subducted the heat below went and created bubbles that rose into the Continental plate. Which caused chambers of magma to form.The magma chambers broke and caused them to break pieces of rock. Around a million years later it cooled into rock.The stone cracked under pressure.Since then the ground over it had been eroding away leaving the broken pieces of rock for everyone to see.