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. 2008 Sep 19;321(5896):1634; author reply 1634.
doi: 10.1126/science.1158019.

Comment on "Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems"

Joel Pederson  1 , Richard Young, Ivo Lucchitta, L Sue Beard, George Billingsley
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Comment on "Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems"

Joel Pederson et al. Science. .

Abstract

Polyak et al. (Reports, 7 March 2008, p. 1377) reported speleothem data leading to their inference that the western Grand Canyon incised much earlier than previously thought. This contradicts several lines of published geological knowledge in the region, hinges upon unjustified hydrogeological assumptions, and is based on two anomalous data points for which we offer alternative explanations.

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