Nankoweap landslide (IMAGE)

University of New Mexico

Nankoweap landslide

Caption

Conceptualization of Nankoweap landslide that brought down large boulders of Kaibab Limestone from the cliffs at left and created a geologically short-lived paleolake in Grand Canyon.

Credit

Karl Karlstrom

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