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To: cripplecreek

I bet the Grand Canyon was created by lots and lots of explosives set by white men in order to make the water hard to get at for the native Americans.


5 posted on 09/28/2005 6:03:55 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: coconutt2000

It was created by a white guy named Paul Bunion when he dragged his giant axe in the heat of the desert.


8 posted on 09/28/2005 6:06:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: coconutt2000

And it can happen in hours, not years


What was the Lake Bonneville Flood?
Floods are generally considered climatically controlled episodes originating from heavy rainfall. The great ancient catastrophic floods however have involved collapses of natural dams with subsequent draining of lakes, unlike any witnessed in modern human history.

The Bonneville Flood was one of these ancient catastrophic floods that occurred approximately 14,500 yrs. ago, the result of catastrophic failure of one of the natural dams at Red Rock Pass of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.

Pleistocene Lake Bonneville covered most of Utah and parts of Idaho and is estimated to have been over twelve times greater in size than the modern Great Salt Lake. When the dam broke, the flood waters involving approximately 4,750 km3 of water, traveled at an estimated 45 miles/hour, carrying 935,000 yds3 of water/sec. eroding the Snake River Canyon to over 500 ft. deep and over a mile wide in some places.

This catastrophic event changed the landscape of the Snake River Plain to what we visibly see today. Several geologic features that resulted from this spectacular event including large bar complexes, fine-grained slack water deposits, scoured and eroded basalt and scabland topography are visible along the flood route.

http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/hydr/lkbflood/whatlbf.htm


14 posted on 09/28/2005 7:06:45 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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