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Grand Canyon Facts: More Amazing Than You Imagined!

Grand Canyon Facts. Revisiting the Grand Canyon will be so much fun, because this time, we won't just be looking over the edge! I visited when I was about 3 or 4. Pretty young to have many vivid memories. So I dug in and learned not only pertinent facts, but also how we want to put together our first class dirt cheap vacation to this natural wonder of the world .

Geologists place the age of the Earth at around 4.5 billion years. Grand Canyon Facts reveal that the oldest rock in the Inner Gorge is nearly 2 billion years old! The limestone that caps the rim of the Grand Canyon is a young 270 million years. The oldest human artifacts date back 12,000 years.

Can you imagine the persistence of the Colorado River to cut a canyon that is 4,000 feet deep for 277 miles, and digs down to 6,000 feet at its deepest and 15 miles at its widest? That's some river! It's hard to imagine how the Grand Canyon was formed by flowing water.

Grand Canyon Facts also tell us that while the park, which encompasses 1,218,375 acres, was protected as a Forest Reserve as early as 1893, it was not made a National Park until 1919. Grand Canyon history has so much to tell us about the cultures of ancient peoples . How much we're different, and how much we're the same. There are "split twig" artifacts, for instance, that are assumed to be totems because of how they were placed in crevices or set up as a part of monuments. It is amazing how one twig was split, with one half of the twig being wound around and shaped into animal forms, usually deer. Wouldn't it have been easier to use two twigs? Fascinating!

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