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#013 - Grand Canyon, Part 1: The History | Deep Time, Eleven Tribes & the Fight to Protect It
Stand on the South Rim and you're looking at close to two billion years of Earth's history, stacked in visible layers — almost half the age of the planet, sliced open and color-coded by era. This kicks off the Wildlands Grand Canyon trilogy, built the way the canyon was: rock first, then the people.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, traces the full arc. The geology: the 1.8-billion-year-old Vishnu Schist at the bottom, the Great Unconformity where a billion years of rock simply goes missing, the fossil reptile tracks in the Coconino Sandstone, and how the Colorado River cut…
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