How a huge landslide shaped Zion National Park

e! Science News - Popular science news 2016-05-31

Summary:

A Utah mountainside collapsed 4,800 years ago in a gargantuan landslide known as a "rock avalanche," creating the flat floor of what is now Zion National Park by damming the Virgin River to create a lake that existed for 700 years.

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Date tagged:

05/31/2016, 00:40

Date published:

05/27/2016, 11:06