Was The Grand Canyon Created By Extraterrestrial Forces?

The Grand Canyon isn't just one of Arizona's greatest monuments. Heck, it's not even one of America's greatest, but one of the most jaw dropping locations on planet Earth.

From the massive drops and sprawling cave systems, the Canyon almost seems unnatural, and a new discovery from the University of Arizona shows its creation may have not been of this Earth.

How Did This Cave Get So High?

Stanton's Cave is located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in the Marble Canyon stretch. It's been well documented that lake sediment and driftwood are inside this cave, but there's one major problem: the cave is 150 feet above the Colorado River.

The question is, how on earth did those remnants of a lake end up in a cave nowhere close to water. It's baffled scientists and experts for decades, but new studies show that an incredibly unnatural phenomenon may be the cause for this incredibly unnatural placement.

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Extraterrestrial Intervention

In the 1980s, Richard Hereford of the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff presented a solution. A massive rockslide created a natural dam that created a temporary lake, allowing for that driftwood and sediment to travel up into the caverns, but what caused this rockslide?

Evidence shows that it was one of Arizona's other holes in the ground, or rather the object that caused it. It seems that the meteor that created Meteor Crater outside Winslow is also responsible for the landslide. Upon its impact, the force would have reached to the northern edges of the state, likely creating this phenomena, and answering one of the oldest questions about our state's beloved canyon.

[University of Arizona]