Friday, August 2, 2024

313 million-y.o. footprints in Grand Canyon

Ancient Buddhist missionaries as well as Egyptians left their mark in the Grand Canyon.
US Grand Canyon (©Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
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The massive Hudson Canyon under Atlantic
At 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide, and over a mile deep at points, the Grand Canyon is one of the largest canyons in the world -- much smaller than Mexico's Copper Canyon.
How deep is the Grand Canyon?
It's even smaller than the submarine Hudson CanyonThe Grand Canyon of the Atlantic (loe.org) which reaches 2.5 miles deep below sea level, 100 miles off the coast, and is 400 miles long, eroding out as New York's Hudson River's drowned riverbed.

Millions of people flock to the Grand Canyon every year to see its stunning beauty in person. And some people have even made historic discoveries while exploring the vast national park.

Grand discovery (Thomas Blanck/Shutterstock)
A unique set of fossil footprints dating back 313 million years has been unearthed in Grand Canyon National Park.

This park, renowned for its diverse collection of fossil tracks, now boasts the discovery of the oldest vertebrate track -- another testament to the park's geological and paleontological significance. More: 313-million-year-old fossil footprints discovered in Grand Canyon

How old is the Grand Canyon?

Steve Quayle (gensix.com)
It was probably cut quite quickly, geologically speaking, torn open by a mud flood, rather than slowly being etched away by the Colorado River. Archeology, like anthropology, almost certainly grows by punctuated equilibrium with massive deluges and long periods of little growth. So that ancient Egyptians could have arrived and built monuments, developed a system of caves, and a world of underground caverns where the "ant people" to reside in and invite the Indigenous peoples of the region to shelter in during cataclysms. The Sky People arranged it.

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