Scientists Still Don’t Know How or When the Grand Canyon Formed. New Research May Hint at Its Ancient Origins
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Researchers say the ancestral Colorado River formed an ancient lake in northern Arizona roughly 6.6 million years ago that spilled out westward onto the landscape that would eventually become the Grand Canyon