How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?
It's a long story… ↓ More info and sources below ↓ How do you make a Grand Canyon? Thanks to Mike from PBS Idea Channel and Jamin from PBS Game/Show for hanging out at the Grand Canyon...
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[MUSIC]Pretty awesome, isn’t it? The Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural wonderson Earth, 277 miles long, 18 miles wide at its widest, and more than a mile deep intothe Earth’s crust… and unlike the Great Wall of China, you can actually see it fromspace.All the water in all of Earth’s rivers would only fill it halfway.It almost defies belief. The Colorado river, the river that made this canyon, it’s onlyabout 100 meters wide, that's not very big as rivers go. The Mississippi, the Amazonare far, far bigger, and they've never made anything like this. So how did it happen?No one was around to see it form, but the Grand Canyon’s story is written in thosebeautiful rock layers. Geologists are kind of like time traveling detectives,...
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[MUSIC]Pretty awesome, isn’t it? The Grand Canyon is one of the most spectacular natural wonderson Earth, 277 miles long, 18 miles wide at its widest, and more than a mile deep intothe Earth’s crust… and unlike the Great Wall of China, you can actually see it fromspace.All the water in all of Earth’s rivers would only fill it halfway.It almost defies belief. The Colorado river, the river that made this canyon, it’s onlyabout 100 meters wide, that's not very big as rivers go. The Mississippi, the Amazonare far, far bigger, and they've never made anything like this. So how did it happen?No one was around to see it form, but the Grand Canyon’s story is written in thosebeautiful rock layers. Geologists are kind of like time traveling detectives,...
