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#Catastrophic Geo &Rivers

    16-Aug-94 06:55:14
Sb: #Catastrophic Geo &Rivers
Fm: Kamron Kirkconnell 73740,2246
To: All
Rivers for the most part all run in faults and cracks in the earth's crust. This is most apparent in canyons like the Snake River canyon, Grand Canyon and Santa Elena in Big Bend Texas. These canyons in many places have vertical walls that run a consistent width Remove the rubble filling the bottom of the canyon and you can mentally push the canyon back together. The Grand Canyon has huge islands of crust standing within the canyon. The river would not have cut down alternately each side of these stranding them in the canyon. I say the cracks were formed by the catastrophe and the rivers all follow them.