How a huge landslide shaped Zion National Park

Friday, May 27, 2016 - 10:00 in Earth & Climate

A Utah mountainside collapsed 4,800 years ago in a gargantuan landslide known as a 'rock avalanche,' creating the flat floor of what is now Zion National Park by damming the Virgin River to create a lake that existed for 700 years.

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