Age of Colorado River

Via geology.com from Arizona Geology Magazine:

Arizona’s Grand Canyon reveals an enormous sequence of rocks that represent more than a third of the 4.5-billion-year age of the Earth. The canyon itself, however, is quite young in comparison, with most or all canyon incision occurring over the past 5 million years according to most interpretations. Careful investigative work has refined this age determination, as reported in this brief article….

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