by A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, according to a new study.
While many Americans are familiar with the beauty and uniqueness of the Grand Canyon, they may not be aware of the story behind its formation.
The Colorado River may have engraved the canyon deeply, as rocky rubble, according to the Grand Canyon Conservancy, made most of the carving most of the carving.
But what caused the flood?
A study in published in geology On Tuesday, another landmark of Arizona, the meteor crater, tied to the formation of the Grand Canyon.
A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, according to a new study (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)
The study stated that the meteor crater founded 56,000 years ago in the Grand Canyon, which blocked the Colorado River, and a paleolake – a lake that existed in the past – blocked in canyon.
Geologists have long wondered how and as a driftwood in Stanton’s cave in the Grand Canyon when the mouth of the cave was 150 feet above the river. There are also lake sediments in the cave.
“It would have necessary a 10-time level of water than any flood that has taken place in the past thousand years,” said one of the authors of the study, the emeritus of Karlstrom at the University of New Mexico, in a press release on Tuesday.
He continued: “Or maybe they are very old deposits that carved after the river, or maybe they floated from a paleolake that was caused by a lava dam or landslide sitting downstream? We had to know the age of the cave deposits.”
A study published on Tuesday bound the meteor crater with the formation of the Grand Canyon (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images).
The study stated that the meteor crater in the Grand Canyon, which was formed 56,000 years ago, which blocked the Colorado River, triggered landslides and, in other words, a former lake, blocked in Canyon (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) and formed a paleolake (Brandon Bell/Getty Images).
The study showed that the Driftwood is 56,000 years old, the same geological age as the asteroid effects and the landslide.
The researchers suggested that the landslide seems to have the same age as a meteor crater, the asteroid exhaustive explosion caused the landslide.
The paleolake formed from the landslide that was right the Colorado River. Caves like Stanton’s cave were flooded by the paleolake.
