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Rio Grande Gorge (rift)

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Rio Grande Gorge
Geologically, the Rio Grande Gorge is a rift valley,[1] a separation in the earth’s crust caused by faulting and other earth movements when the North American and Pacific plates scraped against each other some twenty-nine million years ago.[2]

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