There are millions of years of history buried within Grand Canyon's layered bands of red rock. Amid the ancient sediment, scientists are still 'digging up secrets from the walls of the Grand Canyon,' one geologist tells hereandnow.
,” says when tourists stay at the South or North Rim tourist areas and hotels, they only see about one tenth of the canyon.
But not all is lost. When scientists set out to explore ancient rocks and sediments, they are still “digging up secrets from the walls of the Grand Canyon,” Ranney says.On how the Grand Canyon’s layers formed “Sometimes people will say, 'I heard the ocean was here once' and I have to correct them slightly and say, 'No it's been here many times,' and the different layers represent that.”“In a general sense, when we look at Red Rocks, we're typically looking at sediments that were deposited on land and the iron in that sediment reacted with the oxygen in the atmosphere and gave it these brilliant hues of reds and purples and golds. And so the sea was here all those many times.
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