tommy_b_777 t1_iugs49d wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:20 AM

Reply to comment by crazydavebacon1 in U.S. Streams Are Drying Up. Data showed that in the South and West, streamflow droughts got longer between 1951 and 2020, regardless of threshold. Worse yet, droughts in these regions are becoming more intense by Wagamaga

The Grand Canyon was cut by the river currently still flowing through it - The Colorado. Go check a map - you can see the river clearly labeled…

crazydavebacon1 t1_iuh4tjf wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:29 AM

You know it’s tiny right? Dried up is still true, you see how deep it used to be?

tommy_b_777 t1_iui4ktu wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:43 PM

ETA OK I sound like an asshole - Nicer this time

It CUT the Grand Canyon dude - it wasn’t that huge, it CUT THE CANYON OVER TIME. Read a geology textbook. The plateau is sandstone, which you can cut with running water in days or weeks in some places. The river starts out in hard rock then hits soft sandstone and Cut the deep canyon you see over lots and lots of years. I live at the headwaters of the CO river, my friends guide on it…The GC was not full of water like lake powell once was...