Tourists looking at 1000 ft drop down to Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend, just outside Grand Canyon, near Page, Arizona, USA
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile. Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration. For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves.
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Location: Horseshoe Bend, Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States
Photo credit: © Eduard Grjasin / Alamy / Afripics
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