Home. Birth. They have names like well towns thrown vishnus temple valhalla overlook all secret pile on jupiters temple the naming looks back to mythological realms as if the name gives could barely believe their eyes at the sight of these majestic cracks towering to heights of almost two thousand meters. To stand for the first time at the rim of this tremendous fissure in the earths crust is to be overwhelmed no matter how well prepared by the countrys photos films and reports the visitor is ordered by the dramatic grandeur of the canyon it was carved out by the Colorado River over the course of millions of years. The grand canyon in northwest arizona is eight hundred meters deep and up to thirty kilometers wide and drums for four hundred forty six kilometers through the forest. Passe there are chasms elsewhere i have a deeper or narrower but numbness as majestic or inspiring fascinating plane famous as the ground. The first europeans to set eyes on the ground canyon look questing for gold in fifteen forty a spanish army commanded by francisco to carra nado moved north through the Great American desert seeking the legendary seven golden cities of ebola the story was that there was gold to be had a lot of gold. The Indigenous Peoples told them of a great river further north might not the fabled treasures be their car not of sent out a scout. Somewhere around here after travelling for twenty days the expedition reached the grand canyon the story goes that the sites so stunned and overpower the men that they fell upon their knees and prayed. They spent three days on the rim without finding any way down into the canyon with their water and provisions running out they returned baffled and disappointed the quest for the cities of gold had failed and from that time on the grand canyon was forgotten by the white men for centuries. Then in eight hundred fifty eight the paddle steamer explora struck concealed rock. Joseph five sent his crew were bound operative from the mouth of the colorado in the gulf of california to establish how far it was navigable but they were forced to turn back. Not till eight hundred sixty nine did major John Wesley Powell take a boat up the river that expedition marked the start of serious attention to the. Massive corps it was to who gave it the name we know it by the grand canyon. In the grand canyon there are rocks some one point seven billion years old that makes them a third as old as the planet they are the only just exposed rock from ations on earth late bad by the Colorado River and its tributaries and helped by rock falls and landslides also caused by the red river unceasing erosion of the bankside cracks. To geologists the grand canyon maps the history of the two pilin years ago this part of the earth was covered by scenes and vast lakes when they received it they left immense deposits of sand and shell live volcanoes emitted lav on top of this allow a strage of petrified into some stone and shape. Nature the masses of rock were broken up and restructured by Tectonic Forces pressure and heat and the mountains were raised again the land was flooded again the seas receded after millions of years again huge deposits remained and in this way one lair after another was created. The landscape was given its present shape some forty or fifty million years ago when the Rocky Mountains were forced up on the land to the sufferer raised by some three thousand men. It is erosion has already worn away one thousand meters of that in the meantime these are processes we cannot detect with our best senses but they are continuously in motion a time will come when the grand canyon will have disappeared from the face of a i. Am the watch tower has a museum reminding visitors that at one time all of this land including the grand canyon belonged to the native peoples of the navajo who were lumping and the have a super high the colorado is what remains of a great flood but once covered the. Indigenous peoples managed to survive by changing into fish which is why traditional minded navajo never eat fish to this day. The mythical hero paki fowey ended the great flood by slamming his mighty club onto the waters that covered the earth and screeching open the ground. After joseph five said failed in his attempt to steam up the colorado he wrote we were the first group of whites and will doubtless be the last to visit this region devoid of any use those who go there can only turn around. Today some five million visit the grand canyon every year along with the Empire State Building it ranks as the u. S. A. s most popular tourist attraction. Not that many of them attempt the difficult hike down to the camaraderie its a twenty two kilometer descent from the northern rim to the valley and takes the walker through the same changes of climate as he would encounter along the two thousand eight hundred kilometer stretch from Lower California and mexico up to British Columbia in canada. Most visitors view the canyon from the southern rim which is easily accessible on average they spend less than an hour out of their cars instead of an experience of nature all they find is Traffic Congestion as for the hikers they trample the vegetation and leave mountains of later. When Theodore Roosevelt visited the grand canyon in one thousand and three he urged visitors to preserve it for the children and grandchildren and for all the generations to come but his words have had little effect the visitors love nature to death as National Geographic or to. The colorado got its name from the red color it acquired from sandstone nowadays the river is blue all sometimes green in one nine hundred sixty three the Glen Canyon Dam was the up river and since then it has had that the red sand the formerly gave the river its tacky color. Down generates hydro power for less vegas and phoenix but it has destroyed the ecological balance in the grand canyon the water no longer there has sufficient amounts of the drift wood. Which one rots plays a basic part in the food chain of insects fish and birds. When the sunlight plays upon it the grand canyon is one of the loveliest and most overwhelming natural spectacles on earth. The inconceivable antiquity of these rocks prompts a sense of humility humankinds own insignificance is palpable before these witnesses to a task far beyond our grasp. For simone de beauvoir the grand canyon was the any magic archetype of or landscapes be that as it may words a coward mr express this eternal scene the grand canyon is poetry in stone. A. Because. We take football personally. The best kicker here. And a lot of dust talks about her life for the buyer munich star robert. A celebrity sports couple up close and personal. Next g. W. 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