I just love the different layer of sentiment in the rock
That would be promoting it was at one time sediment on the bottom of a sea made of liquid water, I have a different version I would like to put on the table.
4B years ago this earth was a spinning mass of molten rock and metal. 1 day is supposed to have only been 6 hours long and with the moon being much closer the magma was experiencing a tidal bulge that never met a shore and with no atmosphere there would have been no waves. As material came in the heat being radiated would evaporate any ice long before it could impact the surface. When it did it made a splash that jello could duplicate by dropping a marble from the height of about 1 meter.
Now you have a spinning ball and a tidal bulge and now add in 3.6B years and is it possible that the layers you are looking at were formed that far back in time and the banding is based on gravitational affects rather than. Go to any bar and ask for a layered shooter, two liquids of different densities and different colors, add 1b years and you have a piece of sedimentary rock.
Is the above true or false??
The fact you can see those layers is there because of what factors?
The current trend is water erosion created it. The one that is being held back is that it is an expansion crack due to the rock originally being made solid at a certain distance from the core and the location of the rock that is the Grand Canyon that distance is now greater and a solid object has to take up more space and that is accomplished by a crack developing. California had aquifers that filled from rain so that is a different effect of expansion. Snake River Canyon is an excellent example as it is a river that cuts across a mountain range rather that flowing down the valley before you can get to the high ridge. An expansion crack is the best explanation, the current explanation is several miles of erosion by water, rain water would be needed as snow doesn't erode a peak, once it fills the cracks and freezes it stays that way for millions of years without unthawing once. If that part of the Rockies needed 2 miles eroded then that would apply to the whole mountain chain and there is nothing to support that happening to a mountain chain that is only 200M years old.
Happy trails.
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