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Monday, September 2, 2013

A canyon longer than the Grand Canyon, was found buried under Greenland ice-sheet. Simply incredible!

The hidden canyon is up to half a mile deep, six miles wide and stretches for 466 miles beneath the country’s giant ice sheet.
It is thought to have been carved out by a meandering river more than four million years ago – at a time before ice covered the area and humans were just beginning to evolve from primates.
Read more here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greenland/10275580/Canyon-longer-than-Grand-Canyon-found-buried-under-Greenland-ice-sheet.html


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