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How was red river gorge discovered? you can get it off anywhere i dont mind

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The colony was founded in 1811–12 by Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk, a Scottish philanthropist, who obtained from the Hudson's Bay Company a grant of 116,000 square. the red river gorge was formed as the Red River cut through sandstone creating steep-sided narrow valleys

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Thomas found it

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It began forming after the region uplifted about 600 meters above sea level roughly 285 million years ago during the Permian — a process that formed the Cumberland Plateau from Alabama to western New York

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