Rock layers preserve record of ancient sea tides near Blythe, California
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 10:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Five million years ago, the Colorado River met the Gulf of California near the present-day desert town of Blythe, California. The evidence, say University of Oregon geologists, is in the sedimentary rocks exposed at the edges of the valley where the river flows today.