Sentences with phrase «erosion over millions of years»

It also features the spectacular rock formations of Remarkable Rocks and Admirals Arch, created by erosion over millions of years.

What starts off as a tiny crack steadily grows larger from repeat flash floods and erosion over millions of years.

The park has an incredible 2,000 natural arches in its sandstone rock, formed by erosion over millions of years.

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An example of uplift powering erosion is the Grand Canyon, where the terrain's rising altitude caused the river to cut deeply downward into the landscape over the course of several million years.

The rise of the Andes, Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau, and mountain ranges in western North America over the past 25 million years would have been expected to have cause faster weathering and erosion, and therefore a faster burial of carbon drawn from the atmosphere.

Caravan's Grand Canyon adventure tour guests get to experience an afternoon boat cruise through Antelope Canyon with its rich red sandstone walls that were carved by over 5 million years of erosion.

At one extreme are erosion - resistant metamorphosed submarine basalts, greenstones, formed over 100 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs, and often forming headlands that defy the battering waves.

This will allow scientists to track processes such as erosion and glaciation that shaped the landscape over millions of years.