Monday 3 June 2013

The Grand Canyon by Numbers

Here are ten figures related to the Grand Canyon.

1.  3 - 6 million -- number of years ago that it took for the Colorado River to carve out the Grand Canyon



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2.  2 billion -- age of rocks


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3.  18 -- width in miles of canyon (the island of Manhattan can fit inside)




4.  3 -- number of Empire State Buildings which can be stacked on top of each other to equal canyon's height


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5.  11,000 -- number of years since humans first settled in the canyon





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6.  1919 -- year the canyon achieved state park status



Photo: People riding mules on a Grand Canyon trail

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7.  45,000 -- number of visitors when it first opened




Theodore Roosevelt with tourists at Grand Canyon rim



Theodore Roosevelt with tourists at the Canyon courtesy www.pbs.org.



8.  56 -- number of reptiles living in the Grand Canyon


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9.  355 -- number of species of birds;




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10.  3 -- types of rock (Layered Paleozoic, Grand Canyon Supergroup, Vishnu Basement)



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