It would have been, but it wouldn't have lasted as long.
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Sandstone. Shale and limestone do work, but they are not as good as sandstone. Wet mud also works, but it is not as permeable as sandstone.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is located along the northeast edge of what is known as the Harney Peak Granite Batholith in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A batholith is a geologic feature that formed by the cooling of a large igneous body of magma below the earth's surface; if a similar igneous body reaches the earth's surface, it would form a volcanic feature such as a lava flow. The Black Hills magma was emplaced into the older "host" mica schist rocks during Precambrian time, approximately 1.7 billion years ago! Source: National Park Service
a sandstone would break more easily because a quartzite is harder. a quartzite is made of sandstone melted together by magma
yes ... but only in national treasure! if there really was a city of gold, someone would have already found it and stole all of the gold. and it is the first time that anyone has ever heard of it!
Mount Rushmore is in the Black Hills region of South Dakota.
South Dakota is where mount Rushmore is located
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to view Mount Rushmore you have to travel to south dakota
You would see it in the Black Hills in South Dakota
You would be in South Dakota.
From the beginning, the carvings on Mount Rushmore were intended to be a tourist attraction, to get people to know about and visit South Dakota. Gutzon Borglum chose to depict the four presidents on Mount Rushmore because he thought that would be the most attractive to tourists.
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Mount Rushmore faces inland, somewhat towards the center of the United States. Since the sculpture is located in South Dakota, the country that would be facing its back would be Canada.
The sculptures on Mount Rushmore were designed by Gutzon Borglum. Mount Rushmore is named for a New York City attorney who was in the Black Hills in 1885 checking titles to properties. One day, while riding past the mountain, Rushmore asked guide William W. Challis what the name of the mountain was. Challis jokingly replied that the mountain did not have a name, but that it did now, that they would call it "Rushmore". The United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognized the name "Mount Rushmore" in June 1930. Mount Rushmore was originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "Six Grandfathers".
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It is just known as Mt. Rushmore. To have a "shrine" of presidential heads is not something that would be popular in the United States.