Why Water Makes Two Canyon Forms
The contrast misleads. Light narrows to a blade inside Antelope Canyon, where curving walls make water seem almost delicate; beyond it, the Grand Canyon opens as a mile-deep cut whose breadth suggests force without restraint. The scale separates them. Both are erosional records, but they were written by water operating at sharply different scales.Scale is the trick. The Colorado River drains an im...More
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