So your explanation for the Grand Canyon is the Continental Divide??? The entire Colorado system is to the west of the Divide.
I don’t know what you are talking about with regards to that.
I was taking about causes of the Colorado being made vs the creationist Noah’s flood myth. The rate of erosion is greater than the rate of the uplift of the land, roughly keeping the river flowing at about the same altitude it’s always been. The land got higher.
Same thing is happening near my house on a smaller scale. Again, this Creek drains the entire area near my house. No other canyons on this side of the bay are deeper or steeper. How else did the area manage to drain? The water didn’t run uphill. Give me another plausible mechanism that fits the facts.
I mean the Grand Canyon in place of the word Colorado.
You credit geological uplift for forming the Grand Canyon, while oddly maintaining that the altitude of the Colorado River remained roughly the same, Wacka. Think about it, and think about those other two, more notable instances of geological uplift that I mentioned.
How much of a change in altitude, do you suppose, caused the Mississippi to flow “backwards” for a period of time, and caused the formation of Reelfoot Lake, back in the early 1800’s? I’m referring to activity on the New Madrid fault.
The Mississippi didn’t just eat it’s way through and continue on course, and Reelfoot is a lake to this day. Geological uplift. Temporary in the first instance, lasting in the second.
Why isn’t a canyon forming there instead, Wacka?