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The 17 pages that link to Grand Canyon, each with the reason it gives.

• Colorado RiverBroader topic: Its cliffs record the river’s long erosion of uplifted rock.

• Colorado PlateauBroader topic: It exposes a deep cross-section of the plateau’s layered rocks.

• GeomorphologyBroader topic: Its exposed strata and river incision illustrate landscape change across long timescales.

• Allopatric speciationRelated: Its barrier has limited movement between some populations on opposite rims.

• CanyonBroader topic: Its exposed rock layers record a long history of river incision and landscape change.

• UnconformityBroader topic: Its walls display the Great Unconformity and other gaps between rock units.

• ArizonaBroader topic: It is Arizona’s best-known landscape and a major national park.

• John Wesley PowellBroader topic: Its rapids and geology defined the most famous stretch of Powell’s 1869 expedition.

• Whitewater raftingRelated: Its rapids became a celebrated destination for modern commercial and private rafting.

• Grenville orogenyRelated: Its basement includes rocks whose ages and histories connect to Grenville-age tectonism.

• Paul BunyanRelated: One tall tale attributes the canyon to a trench dragged by Paul and Babe.

• Thelma & LouiseBroader topic: The film’s final pursuit ends at its rim, where escape becomes an irreversible choice.

• Grand Canyon National ParkBroader topic: The park centers on this immense canyon and protects much of its landscape.

• Hells CanyonCompared with: It is a familiar comparator, but Hells Canyon has greater rim-to-river relief at its deepest point.

• Historical geologyBroader topic: Its strata illustrate how rock exposures preserve evidence of different geological periods.

• García López de CárdenasBroader topic: Cárdenas’s party reached its rim in 1540 but could not descend to the river.

• Pinus ponderosaBroader topic: Ponderosa pine forests occupy its cooler, higher elevations above desert communities.