The Grand Canyon is a very wide and deep gorge in the north of the American state of Arizona. Over millions of years, the waters of the Colorado have created this gorge in the landscape. This extreme erosion was made possible by the fact that the area in which the gorge lies was rising further and further up. The Colorado erodes about 16 cm per 1000 years. The canyon is about 435 kilometers long and has a width that varies between 15 and 29 kilometers. According to measurements, the rock that is now exposed is about 2 billion years old.
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