The Grand Canyon: How It Formed

Posted: September 5th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Camp Sites | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 25 Comments »

Erosive forces continue to shape the Grand Canyon today, millions of years after it began to form. Normal channel erosion alone, however, cannot explain the many kilometers that separate its rims. The strongest explanation holds that the major factor in the widening of the canyon has been activity from tributary drainage systems — the side streams, rivulets, and gullies outside the main river channel. The greatest erosive force in these tributaries is the fast-moving landslide called a debris flow.


25 Comments on “The Grand Canyon: How It Formed”

  1. 1 Splovengates7 said at 8:31 pm on March 13th, 2010:

    You need a Bible study to know what really happened and why Jesus hasnt returned yet.
    But I can tell you that Jesus would have returned in 1888 if the people of God were ready. In the 1840′s people around the world thought Jesus would return. But they had misunderstood the relationship between the sanctuary in heaven and the sanctuary on earth.God had alot to show His people in studying the Sanctuary of the Old Testament

  2. 2 gregrutz said at 8:37 pm on March 13th, 2010:

    @Splovengates7
    Keep making shit up as you go.

  3. 3 Machiavelli76 said at 7:40 pm on March 15th, 2010:

    All of you, most of you are SHEEP! Following scriptures some crazed out fanatics wrote to brainwash pagans. Let me tell you, Jesus, he aint never comming back To this piece of shit world, never. Keep dreaming boys and girls. And that goes for Allah to, he would be laughing at Jihadists right now, dumb apes. The planet would go through changes with or without us, you people think you are so exclusive cause we have evolved our brains to think some guy lives in the clouds. LOL! wake the EF up.

  4. 4 Machiavelli76 said at 7:50 pm on March 15th, 2010:

    If it wasnt for Galileo Galilei, we as fools as the church would have wanted everybody to be as we speak, we would be walking around still thinking that Earth was the center of the universe. But people like him made us see the world and the cosmos as we see it today. No God, nor no human was around to see how this canyon was made. so stop the BS, most of you dont even know what your talking about.

  5. 5 Splovengates7 said at 9:44 am on March 16th, 2010:

    O oh! Here we go again. @Machiavelli76•Youre just like those people talkin smack about it not raining before the Flood. God gave those people 120yrs in which Noah built the Boat and preached the end of the world was coming. They didnt believe until those first few rain drops. Too late then. Door was closed a week before it rained. Keep talkin’ smack.

  6. 6 Splovengates7 said at 4:43 pm on March 20th, 2010:

    Found some more evidence of a world wide flood.

    Animal fossil footprints in mountains are found mostly going up hill.

    “Nuff said.

  7. 7 TheBaldmeister said at 6:44 am on March 30th, 2010:

    What????

    Fossilized animal foot prints were made on the flat. Whatever direction they point on mountains is due to earth movements.

  8. 8 steponme208 said at 9:56 pm on April 14th, 2010:

    please let this not be a creationists viewplease let this not be a creationists view please let this not be a creationists view please let this not be a creationists view please let this not be a creationists view- YAY!

  9. 9 gregrutz said at 11:13 pm on May 22nd, 2010:

    @Splovengates7 No, nuff. fooprints don’t go uphill, and if they did it would not prove anything.

  10. 10 gregrutz said at 11:15 pm on May 22nd, 2010:

    @Splovengates7 What flood? There is not evidence for a global flood, it sure didn’t kill the Chinese.

  11. 11 TPhiP said at 11:28 pm on June 10th, 2010:

    satan fell here

  12. 12 TPhiP said at 11:43 pm on June 10th, 2010:

    do you actually think when satan fell it was a light fall

  13. 13 robertmike57 said at 8:00 pm on June 16th, 2010:

    I know how the Grand Canyon was made

    A Jew dropped a quarter down a gopher hole/

  14. 14 Eschatus2 said at 2:46 am on June 19th, 2010:

    LOL! What rubbish! There are gazillions of “tributaries” around the whole planet off of main rivers and there are no other “Grand Canyons”. So this grasping-at-straw-conjecture is entirely LAME.

  15. 15 nathanfishing3000 said at 3:00 pm on July 11th, 2010:

    wrong

  16. 16 Cheshie said at 1:30 am on July 15th, 2010:

    Someone should post this to those assholes over on those biblical flood videos. As if they would listen.

  17. 17 24CDSS said at 6:34 am on July 23rd, 2010:

    what a minute. how do rivers flow up-hill?

  18. 18 brother234 said at 5:19 am on August 14th, 2010:

    @Cheshie This video “tells” you how it happened versus offering a competing theory as those “assholes” who call themselves creationists do. Do you realize how many theories there are which differ on how it was formed? the facts are still despite this video, catastrophic accounting explains the sea creatures, speed in which it was created, the oppposing dirctions of erosion, the uphill erosion problem, the new lava flow being dated older than the oldest layer, the 900 cubic miles missing . .

  19. 19 brother234 said at 5:22 am on August 14th, 2010:

    Plate tectonics have huge issues like, how did they get the energy to move themselves. NO good explanations are out there except a water layer collapsed and heated faults which broke the plates in the right way causing a quick slide and then coming to a stop as they now have, some having dove down under each other and others ramming into each other.

  20. 20 Cheshie said at 8:55 am on August 14th, 2010:

    @brother234 It’s pretty clear you don’t know what you’re talking about. Please don’t vote.

  21. 21 Cheshie said at 9:10 am on August 14th, 2010:

    @24CDSS They don’t. The land formed up around it. Come on, pay attention!

  22. 22 jordskull said at 3:58 pm on August 22nd, 2010:

    this is all wrong… aliens carved the grand canyon with their big-ass powerful lasers :)

  23. 23 vigo894 said at 4:27 pm on August 28th, 2010:

    @jordskull= How do you contact them? I want them to blast a hole in my yard. I want a pool. Plus, I won’t have to cut grass anymore.

  24. 24 jordskull said at 5:58 am on August 29th, 2010:

    @vigo894 find ET :)

  25. 25 Yaylin2 said at 3:25 pm on September 3rd, 2010:

    Grand Canyon had a world wide flood.


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