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PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 24-Oct-2013
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November 2013 GSA Today
Boulder, Colorado, USA In the November issue of GSA Today, James W. Sears of the University of Montana in Missoula advocates a possible Canadian connection for the early Miocene Grand Canyon by arguing for the existence of a "super-river" traceable from headwaters in the southern Colorado Plateau through a protoGrand Canyon to a delta in the Labrador Sea.
Sears proposes that the river flowed first toward the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau, and then, in a shift initiated by uplift of the Rio Grande Rift, turned north into Paleogene rifts in the vicinity of Lake Mead. He posits that it then followed northeast-trending grabens across the Idaho and Montana Rockies to the Great Plains and joined the pre-ice age "Bell River" of Canada, which discharged into a massive delta in the Saglek basin of the Labrador Sea.
In this scenario, tectonic faulting beginning 16 million years ago dammed the Miocene Grand Canyon, creating a large lake that existed up to six million years ago. Then volcanism, including the action of the Yellowstone hotspot, cut the river off in Idaho about six million years ago, leading to the eventual capture of the Colorado River by the Gulf of California.
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Late Oligoceneearly Miocene Grand Canyon: A Canadian connection?
James W. Sears, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA, james.sears@umontana.edu. Pages 4 doi: 10.1130/GSATG178A.1, http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/.
GSA Today articles are open access online; for a print copy, please contact Kea Giles. Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to GSA Today in articles published.
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PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 24-Oct-2013
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ShareContact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America
November 2013 GSA Today
Boulder, Colorado, USA In the November issue of GSA Today, James W. Sears of the University of Montana in Missoula advocates a possible Canadian connection for the early Miocene Grand Canyon by arguing for the existence of a "super-river" traceable from headwaters in the southern Colorado Plateau through a protoGrand Canyon to a delta in the Labrador Sea.
Sears proposes that the river flowed first toward the southwest corner of the Colorado Plateau, and then, in a shift initiated by uplift of the Rio Grande Rift, turned north into Paleogene rifts in the vicinity of Lake Mead. He posits that it then followed northeast-trending grabens across the Idaho and Montana Rockies to the Great Plains and joined the pre-ice age "Bell River" of Canada, which discharged into a massive delta in the Saglek basin of the Labrador Sea.
In this scenario, tectonic faulting beginning 16 million years ago dammed the Miocene Grand Canyon, creating a large lake that existed up to six million years ago. Then volcanism, including the action of the Yellowstone hotspot, cut the river off in Idaho about six million years ago, leading to the eventual capture of the Colorado River by the Gulf of California.
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ARTICLE
Late Oligoceneearly Miocene Grand Canyon: A Canadian connection?
James W. Sears, Dept. of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA, james.sears@umontana.edu. Pages 4 doi: 10.1130/GSATG178A.1, http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/.
GSA Today articles are open access online; for a print copy, please contact Kea Giles. Please discuss articles of interest with the authors before publishing stories on their work, and please make reference to GSA Today in articles published.
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