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Grand Canyon Trail of Time – Folded Vishnu schist basement rock. The Trail of Time is an outdoor geology exhibit and nature trail on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Each meter walked on the trail represents one million years of Grand Canyon's geologic history. Bronze markers on the trail mark your location in time.
English: 2021 revision of the stratigraphic column of strata of the Grand Canyon region showing individual geologic formations and major unconformities that comprise three sets of strata; 1. Vishnu Basement Rocks, 2. Grand Canyon Supergroup, and 3. Layered Paleozoic Rocks. The major unconformities are the 1. Great Nonconformity, 2.
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The Grand Canyon Supergroup is a Mesoproterozoic to a Neoproterozoic sequence of sedimentary strata, partially exposed in the eastern Grand Canyon of Arizona. This group comprises the Unkar Group , Nankoweap Formation , Chuar Group and the Sixtymile Formation , which overlie Vishnu Basement Rocks .
The Grand Canyon is part of the Colorado River basin, which has developed over the past 70 million years. [7] [20] For more than 150 years, scientists have gathered data, proposed new ideas, and debated sometimes contentious theories about the geologic origins of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River. Formation of the Grand Canyon and the ...
The Mesoproterozoic formations in the Grand Canyon are overlain by the 850 million year old, Neoproterozoic Chuar Group and Sixtymile Formation sedimentary rocks. The Great Unconformity is a famous gap in the stratigraphic record of the Grand Canyon of 900 million years between Proterozoic granitic rocks and Cambrian marine sediments. For the ...
A geologic cross section of the Grand Canyon. [ 5 ] The Tonto Group is a name for an assemblage of related sedimentary strata , collectively known by geologists as a Group , that comprises the basal sequence Paleozoic strata exposed in the sides of the Grand Canyon.
Principle of Uniformitarianism: defined in the authoritative Glossary of Geology as "the fundamental principle or doctrine that geologic processes and natural laws now operating to modify the Earth's crust have acted in the same regular manner and with essentially the same intensity throughout geologic time, and that past geologic events can be explained by phenomena and forces observable ...