The region where the Grand Canyon now lies begins to shift ... At the very bottom of the canyon lies the Vishnu Schist, a hard rock originally deposited mainly as sediments some 2 billion years ...
The Grand Canyon is the biggest canyon on earth: 277 miles long, 10 miles wide, and a mile deep. It contains some of the oldest exposed rock on earth, Precambrian Vishnu schist, formed 1.7 billion ...