Castlewood Canyon State Park in Franktown, Colorado is one of those places that makes you do a double-take and wonder if someone forgot to tell you that Colorado secretly contains portals to Mars.

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The cave includes rare aragonite crystals that form delicate, needle-like structures. These crystals are fragile and take thousands of years to grow. Flowstone cascades down the walls like frozen ...

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In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.

President Theodore Roosevelt made the area a game preserve in 1906 and created Grand Canyon National Monument in 1906, ...

More than 50,000 years ago, a meteor hit Earth and formed what we now call Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. But new ...

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The Giles-House copyrighted e-book, “Geology of the Lower Owyhee River, Oregon’s Grand Canyon,” is now online at www.owyheegeology.com as a free downloadable document. An improved second edition will ...

A 30-year-old man from Idaho drowned on the Colorado River last week after he was swept overboard while running a powerful rapid in Grand Canyon National Park.