The Mystery Of The Canyon With Two Mouths

Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 13:20 in Astronomy & Space

One canyon on Earth has two mouths - but that is not the only mystery.First formally documented by western explorers mapping the Colorado Territory in the 1800s, Unaweep Canyon is a puzzling landscape and so it has inspired numerous scientific hypotheses for its origin. A new paper published in Geosphere by Gerilyn S. Soreghan and colleagues brings together old and new geologic data of this region to further the hypothesis that Unaweep Canyon was formed in multiple stages. read more

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