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What clues suggest that the river acts as a "freight train" carrying rock out through the Grand Canyon?​

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today, in the deepest part of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River flows past rocks that are 1.7 billion years old,flows, caused the widening of the canyon. Gathering speed and volume, piles of loose rock and soil that originate in a river's tributaries merge to form powerfully erosive debris flows, which are capable of dramatically affecting the surrounding terrain.

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