How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?

In the 19th century, many people believed that landscapes like the Grand Canyon were shaped by volcanoes and earthquakes. But one American geologist named John Newberry had different ideas.
From: AERIAL AMERICA: Natural Wonders
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[@kingisaacius9712]

I watched the video so you don't have to. Just skip to like 1:58 and watch until 2:10. Your welcome and hope you do well on whatever assignment you are working in aswell :) . The video before is just telling you about a American geologist who discovered it and how he thinks it was created. The short answer is just the time stamps i gave you

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[@strongindependentblackwoma1887]

where can i see an animated version of its "creation" ?

[@danieldanieldadada]

Did you find it?

[@RaKeLN.]

It looks like a massive river that dried up over millions of years, the erosion is visible on the rocks, it used to be filled with water all the way up.

[@TheHeavyassaulter]

Bingo...

[@aashu6848]

It was formed by me and my sis in childhood, we start digging the ground for lost keychain..

[@BMarie774]

I wonder what it was like, that very first day, where the water started to flow towards there. Before any visible erosion was happening.

[@mrityunjoynath7673]

It was full of trees and wild animals I guess.

[@user-tf9xs7nx1h]

Who else had to watch this because of school?

[@aq6855]

Me

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[@Vortex-ov6mw]

Meh

[@Ray-jz3os]

I asked my teacher and he sent this

[@enriqueapril9214]

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[@annharrison4774]

I've thought all along that the fissure was too deep to be carved by water. I believe it was tectonic forces that initially ripped the Canyon apart, thus allowing the water to go through. This is similar to what is happening now in Ethiopia, in Africa.

[@MegaCityOne]

or a ancient rock quary as someone stated. Any canyon this deep would have a river flowing in it. Doesn't mean the river created it.

[@annharrison4774]

Think it's the other way round!

[@MultiPjay]

it wasn't erosion alone but continental drift and erosion that made it so deep.

[@noobsaibot5285]

At 1:55mins you see cross-bedding of the sedimentary rocks layers (not horizontal) indicating deposition of sediments under high flow conditions. Also, the narrator states canyon formation began ~6 millions years ago, based on the radiometric date calculated for the uppermost layer which happens to be limestone (~100ft of crushed up sea fossils which not surprisingly also has the lowest density). So you have the Colorado River carving through an ocean deposit ~8,500ft above sea level, leaving no river delta. That is impossible friends. There are 2 alternative explanations; (1) either the groundwater was released from below the earth's crust causing parts of the crust to subside and then water receded back into the crust and also formed the poles, or (2) the whole ocean floor jacked up catastrophically to create the continent, with the water receding quickly to carve the canyon. I think John Newberry didn't even consider how the plateau got there and how that could help explain the canyon formation.

[@billludlow3317]

Nonsense, you really should do some research on how the Grand Canyon actually formed. I have a few videos on my channel about it.

[@haizzzz7486]

@@billludlow3317 but how would you kno your theory is right over his when you both are investigating the theory of how its formed but seeing the theories from different angles, coming up with different answers. This theory has to be the best one iv read yet. Out of all the other comments, this one to me was like "good point, clever cookie" Remember there just theories. No one will ever know the truth of it.

[@michaelbauer8773]

So if the Colorado River enters the Grand Canyon 4000 feet lower than the top of the Canyon then we know this is not true. Water does not flow uphill. A huge flood and massive overflows from Lake Hopi formed it. The lake beds are still there plus there is no river delta. Nice try.

[@dited358]

HEY HEY! don't question the "science"

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True

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I'm I the only one looking at this just for school and eating candy-

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[@chiyoko277]

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[@turnthebeataround]

No way did that river create the grand canyon. It was formed by multiple massive rushes of water from millions of years of melting ice ages.

[@isaaccastillo8628]

No dude, is other thing, and you may be forget this one: The Flood of Noah. Is a fast process, and is easy to form layers of sediments like a cake in a short period of time. Also, the same layers for example are posible to found in Venezuela, and in other places around the world.

[@gian-lucbrasseur207]

Some of you really need to study mt st helens and the canyons of the PNW before you believe that this took millions of years.

[@mrandmrshavechickens1475]

Electric universe! There is no other answer

[@dited358]

They say millions of years whenever they don't know, they are so cognitively dissonant that they literally think time solves all natures mysteries xD

[@-0.07.7-]

Watching it at school😋🖤

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@@tadelechneda6164 what

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[@imaznlol]

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[@newbie4789]

It's kinda a wierd theory coz some of the flatest palaces on land are also river basins.

[@JonathanPerez-rx3fz]

Nice thoughts for about canyons

[@gregorysagegreene]

My bet is that Randall Carlson ought to have a say about comet-struck ice-sheet meltwater massive floods may have had a hand.

[@timmckee2813]

...but...where did all that material go...?...

[@gerritduplessis7122]

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[@TEXANConnection]

It was single or multiple catastrophic floods. over a short time. Not billions of years of erosion.

[@Samsonmetaphysical]

It was formed in one day by a weapon.

[@colejoubert4316]

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[@aaronbieber2096]

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what kind?

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[@boedude8496]

impossible. a river with an average of 10 miles wide and about 20 feet deep there would have had to have been a flow 8 times greater than the mississippi river. that would require a water (or melting ice) source of 1,200 cubic miles per year - all of which had to go in the same direction. and that is @4mph, hardly rock cutting speed

[@kennethlarrieu1146]

your assumption that the river needs to be as wide as the canyon is false. It only needs to erode a small amount in the center, and then the side slope it creates induces further erosion down to the angle of repose. Now with the advent of satellite imagery we can directly observe these processes as they happen.

[@boedude8496]

@@kennethlarrieu1146 if the walls were sloped then that would be true. but the gc walls are mostly vertical and uniform. a 'normal' size river cannot create or be the cause of a 10+ mile wide canyon. if that were the case then why aren't all ancient rivers at the bottom of similar canyons?

[@sundalongpatpat]

That ending was so abrupt and awkward

[@user-nq2fi4qm6y]

It seems just a clip of a long documentary... I supposed it would describe how it shaped the landscapes...

[@nc8414]

It was formed by a massive earthquake that split the crust

[@andreisidana8289]

i dont understant how Colorado rivver formed the canyon.There is no explanation

[@kimopuppy]

Its gorgeous

[@trulyx33onYT]

That canyon was soooo big😀

[@AnimalsAndReports]

On my list of things to do before I die

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[@fatimafarias3479]

Thanks it really helped a lot.

[@davidcooke8005]

Duh. It was formed when Chuck Norris decided to dig a little hole.

[@reppy5789]

A big excavator, we are living on the bottom most level of what would have been the world

[@tyronepower1878]

Exactly so how did they have an excavator 6 mil years ago

[@tadelechneda6164]

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[@TheMfrogg]

There is new information about the Grand canyon and St. Helens parallel.

[@theworldoftheuniverse2693]

Very interesting thanks for you 🌹👍

[@alexkimberly24]

A post from instagram brought me here

[@MianJawad-on8rs]

thanks i understood about the canyon

[@nicholeowens74]

would the pangea have something to do with this also

[@tifacola]

If you knew the area you’d know there is no way that river went uphill like 4k feet! I was just there a few days ago and thought about it for the first time leaving Page Arizona. No duh! That river could have gone in front of the Vermillion cliffs through Kanab Utah and Apple Valley Utah. You have to go to the top of a mountain to see the Grand Canyon. It’s ridiculous and against reason to think the Colorado river slowly carved it while going uphill.

[@NFLSHYT]

The entire canyon from the peaks to the canyon floor are covered in sea shells ... The canyon was once filled! It was a sea/ocean floor... the river that’s left is the remaining water... A river didn’t cut the canyon🤦🏽‍♂️

[@xbluetux3505]

Yeah it was a mountain at one point too

[@jaydengoudy7453]

We’re did the water go

[@trulyx33onYT]

Exactly

[@krypto_4702]

@@jaydengoudy7453 into the ocean

[@mrandmrshavechickens1475]

It was created by what some scientists call “the electric universe”! The idea has been around for a while but mainstream science still hasn’t recognized it but it answers so many things that scientists still can’t figure out. Check out the ThunderboltsProject channel.

[@stevie6621]

Colorado river is a consequence of the Canyon's formation not the reason for it.

[@cmebans35]

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[@JaxonDay-eh8ei]

thank god they had this

[@SPYMASTERx]

If ur school sent u here then u r being fed a very questionable history of the world

[@kathy9444]

what? why?

[@SPYMASTERx]

@@kathy9444 smithsonian have very shady reputation and by all means should not be used to educate the youth of today

[@undoisteinkekshd5366]

@@SPYMASTERx I mean the information given is not wrong. It just could have been more detailed.

[@chiyoko277]

Lol I'm watching this because I need to and because of online school homework 😂

[@SPYMASTERx]

@@undoisteinkekshd5366 prove it

[@James-ke5sx]

That's nothing in comparison to how it got built up layer upon layer before the Colorado River existed

[@edmondchege7381]

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[@michaelfranklin3977]

My Theory is it was formed by Fractal Burning caused by Lightning strikes from when they chopped down the huge Avatar Trees the Energy from the dome had nowhere Togo

[@gunsandmoses8670]

If millions of years is the case there should be massive water erosion between layers. That's real science

[@Stevelso]

Their was 19 comments and I wanted it to be equal so I commented this.

[@mcintyretyler89]

This is not from melt water, a steady sea of tsunami

[@mcintyretyler89]

As the earth was young it's crust shifted often

[@joeyfeliciano9199]

It's a proof of flood according to the creationists, and they have a point.

[@bavondale]

hahahahahahaha good one

[@surb0nt]

So you don't agree with the idea that there was water in Grand Canyon?

[@joshua.snyder]

A poorly made, unsubstantiated point. 7000 year Earth is absolute garbage.

[@Alexa-Amadeo]

The earth declares the greatness of God!

[@dited358]

You should've put a trigger warning for atheists, they hate seeing Christians express their beliefs

[@jaqafle]

Mount St Helens hold my bear

[@randomperson7964]

im force to watch this for school.

[@lilynguyen744]

Same

[@rodgercrider141]

The grand canyon was a moutian but the colorado river came throw and that's when the grand canyon stated forming

[@merdock656]

Or maybe it was a prehistoric ocean that dried up

[@MianJawad-on8rs]

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[@poptart-_-7314]

anyone else watching this for class

[@Fierysaint1]

So a little water over a lot of time or... a lot of water over a little time. With all the mesas, buttes, spires, earthquake fracture marks, and huge boulders in the middle of effen nowhere I'd say world flood.

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[@Lunarroni]

POV: Your here from school

[@george-gh8nj]

Hahahaha, here we go, millions and millions, a river 8 miles wide? our river s only 6 ft deep and been here for eons .

[@Steel_Ballz]

I mean look how quickly can teens are carved during one rainstorm, it can tear your driveway up if you have a dirt driveway, in the matter of hours so if there was a huge biblical flood it wouldn't have taken days to carve this Canyon

[@Steel_Ballz]

I hate coming back to look at a post and see typos that I didn't catch when I posted it

[@shydiatl]

No longer buy what they are selling.

[@Seano-bo9mu]

Ok that was cool!

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who am i to say this. a gold miner

[@lucasbarfield836]

POV: your science teacher sent yo here:

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[@whoissal]

Geo

[@frosty8244]

God created the grand canyon, had nothing to do with water.

[@sundalongpatpat]

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[@bgosnell7]

Hey

[@wingyantong5511]

this good

[@davidcochran595]

The great flood of Noah Caused this scour plain and simple this happened in a single event

[@samzer1232]

Lyell disproved catastrophism 100s of years ago

[@davidcochran595]

Lyell was wrong

[@akabaker98]

Duh. Noah's flood. Because forget science, it was MAGIC!!!

[@i.j.f.2200]

You're so cool! You're an atheist! Wow!

[@akabaker98]

+Isaac Fisher Above all, I'm a rational person...

[@akabaker98]

Jon Mapa LOL. Ok. Here's a question for you. If Trump wasn't famous (and a billionaire), do you think he would have made it this far? Would you seriously support such a racist, ignorant bigot?

[@akabaker98]

Jon Mapa Spoken like a true bigot, sprinkled with a little idiocy.

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+akabaker98 What is bigoted?

[@mindymoto1]

Im sure Randall Carlson will tell you differently, and have proof of it all.

[@michaelf.3846]

God made it

[@syedmahmudulkhan3225]

Almightily Allah created all things

[@betopelotaz1]

the grand canyon is just a quarry; an ancient quarry

[@MegaCityOne]

more believable than a million year old river.

[@km12353]

my teacher sent me here

[@mikeythegoat4982]

The Grand Canyon was a meteor that hit airazona

[@billanderson5602]

It was formed when an Englishman dropped a penny down a rabbit hole lol.

[@SERENITY_29]

Someone carved it with their fingernails.

[@etherelixir]

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[@ThatGuy09890]

False, we all know it was created when Amber Rose was chasing Kanye with a finger.

[@KmauriWilliams-or6qf]

I am I know y'all from laboratories I suppose

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‏‪0:15‬‏ ‏‪0:17‬‏ ‏‪0:18‬‏

[@jacobmendozamartinez6123]

cool

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wow

[@bolanosdavid32]

WHAT ABOUT THE SUPER VOLCANO IN THAT AREA that exploded YELLOWSTONE SUPER VOLCANO im sure it helped 2× now STOP HIDING THE. TRUTH SMH

[@oldheekory]

Well.. I was taught canyons like Grand Canyon would be able to form when sedimentary rock water flow quickly sweeps the area. Some scholars say Grand Canyon was more likely to be formed in one year. I think just believing that Grand Canyon was made over a billion years ignoring all the possibilities of erosion requires me another level of faith.

[@bavondale]

6 million years

[@pamsimonson5500]

Colorado River

[@markhonea2461]

I don't believe anything by the smithsonian

[@simon_a.j.7255]

This video promotes the improbable and absurd hypothesis that the small Colorado river created the Grand Canyon.

[@javinieves4943]

oh lord big buckle bob faceplanted and bam grand canyon

[@masha5173]

Ugh school sent me here

[@Deikoka]

Ummmmmm....🤔 I'm not convinced

[@wallyjude3]

No rational person would be.

[@stevenaguilera9202]

I'm not either; the Smithsonian are a bunch of liars. There are BONES of giants from the Bible that are uncovered every day around the world and when the Smithsonian hears about it, they hide all of the archaeological evidence.

[@peepoo8374]

who else is here because of their science teacher?

[@drwn1791]

Do you know that the Grand Canyon was formed through erosion by the worldwide flood in Noah's day when God caused it to rain for forty days and forty nights? Genesis 6:17,18

[@dited358]

GEE ALMOST LIKE SOME MASSIVE FORCE OF NATURE CUT THROUGH IT ALL AT ONCE

[@new2nc51]

How "they" TRY to explain that away in less than 3 mins is a PHENOM in and of itself. Let's me KNOW that they BELIEVE the MAJORITY ARE IGNORANT

[@mark6414]

FunGoldenGyrl61 - The challenge is to pick up a basic geology text and know the principles behind the formation of different types of rock for yourself. The video should have been a few minutes longer; but others can be found here on YT to explain.