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The Canyon Country

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STRATUM
Each visible band of color on a canyon wall is a stratum, a single layer of compressed sediment. In the Grand Canyon, some of those layers are nearly two billion years old.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ARROYO
An arroyo is a dry desert gully that can fill with a roaring flash flood within minutes of a storm miles away, a reminder that water shaped every canyon in the West, even where it rarely falls.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TALUS
The sloping apron of broken rock fragments piled at the base of a cliff is called talus. Over centuries, freeze-thaw cycles pry chunks loose from the canyon walls, and gravity stacks them below.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RIMROCK
Rimrock is the hard caprock that crowns a canyon's edge, resisting erosion long after the softer layers beneath have crumbled away, it is what gives mesas and buttes their flat, dramatic tops.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Canyon country word search, free with no sign-up, where the Colorado's patience carved the walls that hold MESA and BUTTE in stone.

About The Canyon Country

Stand at a canyon rim and the earth opens like a book, bands of red, cream, and violet stone stacked in layers that each represent millions of years of sediment slowly pressed into record. Far below, a river threads silver through the gorge it carved, patient and relentless, still cutting deeper today. The ravens tilt on thermals rising off sun-warmed sandstone, and the silence between gusts is the deepest quiet most people will ever hear.

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