Over the edge.Starting in January, visitors will line up to step off the edge of Arizona's Grand Canyon Grand Canyon, great gorge of the Colorado River, one of the natural wonders of the world; c.1 mi (1.6 km) deep, from 4 to 18 mi (6.4–29 km) wide, and 217 mi (349 km) long, NW Ariz. . But a new glass-bottomed platform will ensure that sightseers won't plummet 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) to the canyon floor below. The newly built "Canyon Skywalk" will overhang Overhang Calculated as stock options granted, plus the remaining options to still be granted, and then divided by the total shares outstanding. Notes: A high percentage for the overhang is usually a bad thing. the rim of Earth's largest canyon. "The canyon region began to form about 60 million years ago," says Richard Young, a geologist at the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. at Geneseo. During that time, rock plates that make up Earth's outer layer, or crust, shifted--lifting the region. Millions of years later, the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. began flowing over the uplifted land. Over time, the surging river water eroded, or wore away, the rocks--carving out the canyon. The result for today's visitors: a vertical view with a heart-stopping drop. |
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