The Grand Canyon offers an extraordinary record of Earth’s geologic history in the exposed rocks of its walls. Rocks in the inner gorge are more than 2.5 billion years old, while younger layers record hundreds of millions of years of geologic change. Gaps between some layers also reveal long periods when rock was eroded away or little new material was deposited.
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