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bob ford wrote:
> Bev; how long did it take for the Colorado to carve the Grand Canyon?
> I've been there a number of times and maybe my memory is wrong, but I
> thought the standard theory was that it took hundreds of thousands if
> not millions of years....bobford

Well, okay, you caught me exaggerating...<g>, but it can happen pretty 
quickly, even 2000 years is geologically a blink of the eye.  And even 
if the Grand Canyon was carved out in a week, that doesn't mean it 
hasn't been there for millions of years.  I mean, just a bit south of 
there is a big hole in the ground known as Barringer Crater, or Meteor 
crater.  That happened about as quickly as you can imagine, almost 50 
thousand years ago (49 I think, if I'm not a year behind)  The climate 
in that region in the last 50 thousand years has been pretty dry.  But 
seriously, I don't know that there is a consensus on how old the canyon 
is...somewhere between 5 and 20 million years old, I would guess, 
depending on what area you are talking about.  The process probably sped 
up and slowed down depending on the climate of the era...whether or not 
Earth was in an ice age, etc.  For all we know, it may have started 
eroding 15 million years ago-maybe the size of a large ditch, then 
through 3 or 4 different climate eras, carved out what we see today.  It 
hasn't changed all that much in the several thousand years humans have 
been in North America, for sure, but during that time, it's been 
relatively dry.
Here's something kind of interesting in a sad way...look up Providence 
Canyon...it's a state park down in south Georgia.  They call it 
Georgia's Grand Canyon.  The remarkable thing is that the canyon is only 
about 150 years old.  It's about 150 feet deep, too...that's about a 
foot a year for uniformitarians...<g>  It was caused by poor farming 
practices...a gully run amok<Sp>.

I like timelines, and I have created a master geological timeline..It 
helps me put things in perspective..it contains things like volcanic 
explosions, impacts, anthropology, etc.  Dates are approximate, 
obviously, and for the most part, I have used the orthodox dating making 
only occasional mention of controversial dating.  The GC date is the 
conventional, orthodox date.
Here's an excerpt:
25 million years ago=First hominids appear, modern looking bears, 
wolves, birds, and horses appear; La Garita supervolcano caldera erupts 
with largest volcanic eruption VEI  9.1 in Colorado
13 million years ago= Mass extinctions
8 million=Mastodons roam Earth; Southern California area 1/2 mile underwater
5 million	Impact in Tajikstan forms Karakul crater, 28 miles wide; 
Colorado river begins to carve out the Grand Canyon
3 million	First upright hominids (Australopithecenes); modern whales; 
megalodon swam the seas
2 million	 Advanced Australopithicus in Africa; Yellowstone 
supervolcanic eruption forming Huckleberry Ridge
1.5 million     Homo habilis appears
1 million       Homo erectus appears
900 thousand    Magnetic pole flip (Jaramillo event)
750 thousand	First stone artifacts found; multiple cratering event on 
ice-covered Antarctica over thousands of miles in area
600 thousand    Ancient volcano creates Yellowstone NP

And if you are still reading, you now understand that 'Bev is Earth' 
thing...lol...and you say, yup, she's a Taurean alright.

Bev


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