How has erosion help shape the grand canyon?

Answer 1

After weathering has broken some of the pieces of of a rock or a object erosions part comes in. Erosion carries the pieces to another place and the pieces start to form another object leaving the other object with a cool shape such the Grand Canyon.

Answer 2

"How else"? The answer depends on what you have already read. Bear in mind that questions are answered by more than one person.

Erosion formed the Grand Canyon through one, and maybe a little of another, factor:

• Fluvial - The Colorado River flows through the canyon. Through standard hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution, the river has eroded the canyon we see today. It continues to deepen the canyon by about six inches per year.
• Aeolian - one can argue that in this arid environment, the wind could also have a great effect as there is a lot of exposed rock, which is not particularly resistant, and a lot of loose sediment to blow, and in some places, the canyon is quite narrow, which may result in high wind speeds. This would cause erosion, if true.

The above are, to my knowledge, the only ways in which the Grand Canyon could have been created, in terms of erosion.

Answer 3

Erosion is responsible for taking away the particles of the weathering process

Answer 4

The erosion that has shaped the Grand Canyon has taken over 2 billions years. The last 17 million of which have contributed much to the Colorado River. The Canyon is over a mile deep.

Answer 5

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