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 Grand Canyon (United States of America)


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Valley      Stratum    Colorado

The Colorado flowed through the western part of the United States, and Grand Canyon has been completed by deleting the reddish brown ground over long years. While being able to explore the history of the earth from a stratum, the nature of the present United States has also breathed.

 Until it can do  Stratum  The animals of a valley
1. . from which the valley of 3. branch where it is deleted by the sudden flow and sudden flood of the .2. river through which the Colorado flows into the even ground, and becomes a valley, and land upheaves and a valley becomes deep further also became large deeply, and became a complicated form -- while being deleted in this way, the slope where a soft stratum is loose, and the hard stratum became a steep slope.
The stratum in which the Colorado is flowing now, i.e., the lowest layer, is a stratum of 2 billion years ago. Although this land became a mountain in the meantime or being sunk to the seabed, the seven present stratums were made by it. Since Grand Canyon is deep, the temperature difference of a summit and a bottom becomes no less than 40 degrees C. Consequently, various living things to what lives in a desert from a cold area live. Moreover, while it is divided into a northern coast and a southern coast that it was the kind same from the first and it lives, there are some squirrels which have evolved separately.

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The valley the earth of 2 billion years ago appears

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Natural heritage 1979



Formal name "Ground
KYANION national park"


A length of 450km
The greatest width: 30km
Depth: 1600m
Area: 4926 square kilometers