Grand Canyon, an Attractive Tour of Ancient Climate Change Results
For travelers who travel to the United States, they should definitely visit the famous Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon's big name is no longer familiar in the ears of travelers around the world.
The Grand Canyon's tourist site is largely a steep canyon like a rugged cliff that passes through the Colorado River. The calf length of the Grand Canyon is 446 kilometers while the width is 29 kilometers. The depth of the cliffs is also impressive, almost 1800 meters.
The first inventor of this place was a Spaniard, just like the relationship of Machu Picchu with the failed medieval conquest of Spain. The Grand Canyon was discovered by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas in 1540 CE.
At that time, the Grand Canyon was known as one of the residents of the Indian Native Americans. They built houses on the canyon walls since the lesser known epoch, which was obviously long before the whites encountered it.
The Native Americans, the Indian tribe named the Grand Canyon Canyon with the Kaibab Valley which means mountain reclining or upside-down mountain. Meanwhile, a war veteran named John Wesley Powell who had mapped the Colorado River between 1891 and 1892 gave another name to the canyon.
It was Powell who named this canyon with the Grand Canyon because when mapping he used a wooden boat continuously during the expedition. By the way, Kaibab Limestone white cream becomes the constituent of the surface of Grand Canyon National Park.
Just as the other new amazing tourist spots are found. The Grand Canyon immediately attracted the attention of terrestrial and historical experts. There are many emerging theories regarding the possible formation of the Grand Canyon.
One of the most famous is the belief in the geography of the world that the Grand Canyon is formed from the Pacific Plate and the North American continent plates are intertwined. The two plates then form the gigantic ancient mountain range.
Have you ever heard the extreme climate change that struck the Earth in the past? The changes were evident approximately 1.7 billion years ago. At that time the mountains were drowned and the lives of the people on them were changed.
Also included are the mountains around the Grand Canyon which is then covered by the sea sand. The Beasts of the Sea eventually inevitably live on the sand that block the mountains. Niagara Falls, an exotic nature tourism destination in Canada.
When the sea water was receding, a mountain that was once covered on the top rose again. But the sand and the sea animals that had been caught could not move.
They remain in the mountains and over time, they become the fossils of living creatures. There are a few fossil corals, molusca animals, sea lilies, sea worms to brachiodes which then decorate the peaks of the American Grand Canyon.
Besides the wonders of the fossil at the top of the gorge, the sculpture of Grand Canyon Gorge also raises question marks. It turns out that the beautifully carved sculpture is natural because of the activity of two large plates on earth when extreme climate change in the past. This change made the Colorado plateau lifted to 3 masl (miles of sea level).
The Colorado River then carved the highlands of Colorado in a very long time up to millions of years. These events then made a considerable depth of up to 446 km in the Grand Canyon area.
While walking towards the ocean, as is the normal water cycle, the Colorado River follows the cliffs of the Grand Canyon. There are many results that diminish by half a million tons of cliffs. It is then brought to the Pacific Ocean. These erosion events continue to take place every day for long periods of time.
Cutting-edge research that observations the Colorado plateau as well as the Grand Canyon Canyon shows a rock at the base of the oldest Grand Canyon that is almost 2 billion years old. While the influence itself is formed from erosion that may occur 5 to 6 million years ago.
So we can conclude that according to geologists, the canyon's Grand Canyon includes young. While the Grand Canyon walls are formed from the very old rocks.
