This famous national park is located in northwestern Arizona near Nevada. It has a core protection area of 4,930 km2. The national park was carved by the Colorado River to form the world’s largest canyon, called the Grand Canyon, which is 1,500 m deep. Its horizontal strata record the past two billion years of geological history. There are also the remains of prehistoric human adaptation to a particularly harsh environment.
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(2020). Grand Canyon National Park, U.S.A. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_952
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