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A simplified answer would be that the Canyon is measured from Rim to Rim while the Colorado River gets its width by measuring the river from bank to river bank. At some points the Colorado runs a meandering course through an 18 mile wide canyon. Further, the Grand Canyon National Park is much larger then the canyon itself because it is defined not by nature, but by the whims of cartographers.
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Where does the Indus river flow into?
The Indus river flows into the Arabian Sea, to the west of the Indian Peninsular, or in a wider sense, it flows into the Indian Ocean.
How do natural levees form?
Banks of coarse river load and other material that has been transported down river, that are made when the river floods and bedload is carried out wider then before and desposited. It is left with the river recedes creating a higher banks
What is the difference between a youthful river and a mature river?
A youthful stream is swift flowing, has sharper contours and the banks would be steep, whereas a mature stream is more mellowed in pace, is slow flowing, and is wider than the river upstream. The banks wouls be more silted and have smaller gravel, which is not the case of the youthful stream.
How do rivers change the land?
Rain, hail, or possibly snow can hit the banks of the river hard enough that it can chip away the river banks. Over many years of this, the river banks will become lower in altitude, causing the river to be wider and most likely shallower.
Where are canyons?
canyons are found within the earth
How did the Colorado river affect the landscape of the Grand Canyon?
The movement of water in the Colorado River had some influence on carving out the Grand Canyon, but scientists believe that water during flash flood coming down tributary canyons ate away a lot of ground. A flash flood in the Grand Canyon amounts to a huge amount of water that has sand, rocks, boulder, and huge boulders being carried downstream with it. A LOT of ground is removed in this way. Erosion from ice, where water gets into cracks in the ground, then freezes, then expands, pushes a lot of ground and rock away, making the canyon wider and wider. It is thought that movement of the tectonic plates and the resulting earthquakes, shake a lot of ground and rocks loose.
What is the widest canyon on Earth?
The Capertee Valley, New South Wales, Australia is wider than the Grand Canyon and claimed to be the world's widest.
What is bigger and wider a canyon or a gorge?
A canyon is bigger and wider than a gorge.
How has the grand canyon got wider over time?
There is/was a small river than ran through it and eroded it. Because erosion is when over a long period of time, the water withers away at the rock, causing in the long run, for there to be deteriorated rock.
Does erosion cause a canyon to fill up?
The sides of the canyon would always be crumbling into it, but as that would mean it was getting wider, it wouldn't fill up, just get more level. But presumably there's a stream/river at the bottom which caused the canyon in the first place and this is likely to continue the erosion.
When a stream becomes longer and wider is called what?
A stream that is longer and wider is usually considered a BROOK or a RIVER.
Is the Amazonian River wider than the River Nile?
Yes
How do streams get wider?
a stream gets wider when it gets older and the water erodes the bed of the river to make it wider
When streams become longer and wider they are called what?
It is called a river
Is The pressure of water in a river greater at points where the river narrows than where the river is wider?
yes
What is the part of the river that gets wider nearer to the sea called?
The river delta.
Does the Mississippi river get a mile wider every centry?
no.
