A new model that explains how canyons are formed from floods and other water discharges has discounted an erstwhile brim model, which harped on gushing water discharge in huge volumes having caused ...

The Hidden Chapter Finally Gets a Name A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously ...

A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. The newly named rock layer ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, a new study has found. While many Americans are familiar with the Grand Canyon’s beauty and uniqueness, they may not be aware of the story ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988-2005), Vol. 43, No. 12 (December 2004), pp. 1899-1910 (12 pages) ABSTRACT A single-layer urban canopy model is incorporated into a simple two-dimensional ...

Introducing the Grand Canyon / Stanley S. Beus, Michael Morales -- Precambrian crystalline core / R. S. Babcock -- Grand Canyon Supergroup : Unkar group / J. D. Hendricks, G. M. Stevenson -- Grand ...

Late Oligocene and early Miocene, nearly flat-lying and dominantly volcaniclastic, continental strata in the lower part of the Chalk Canyon Formation are exposed in central Arizona along the ...

Ivo Lucchitta, emeritus scientist, USGS, research associate, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ariz. Richard Young, professor, geological sciences, State University of New York, Geneseo Geneseo, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The birth of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau through which it carved have been a ...