Grand Canyon Answers

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Why did the Colorado River flow THROUGH the plateau instead of around it? How do potholes form on a 2,000-foot cliff, four miles from the river? How does a 5–10-ton rock get lifted into sedimentary rock? Why didn't the river spread out into the softer sedimentary rock when it hit the hard basement rock of the Inner Gorge? Enjoy learning the answers.
01:20 Questions
06:35 Government Answers (fail)
15:00 Hydroplate Answers (succeed)
15:15 Slanted layers under flat layers
15:30 5-10 ton rock lifted into sedimentary rock
16:20 Plateau formation
16:30 Red Butte
17:10 The Funnel
18:40 Arches
19:10 Mesas, Buttes, and Spires
19:30 Petrified Trees
19:55 Grand Lake and Hopi Lake
22:00 Potholes
24:30 Marble Canyon
25:25 Great Denudation
26:15 Kiabab Plateau and Barbed Canyons
27:15 Grand Canyon
27:40 Side Canyons
28:25 Inner Gorge
29:50 Where did all the dirt go?
32:45 Review: Bulging and Cracking Three Times
35:10 Q & A

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