There was a news release four years ago -
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/?id=GRNDCNYN.UAZ(woohoo, I found it!!) titled "Grand Canyon Geologic Infant." That's a pretty good YoungEarther headline for those who don't read beyond the headline. If one reads, though, one finds:
Some scientists now believe that a third of the canyon's depth may have been cut in the blink of a geologic eye -- perhaps during the past 600,000 to 700,000 years.
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Webb and University of Utah researchers Cassandra Fenton and Thure Cerling are finding evidence of massive floods from failure of lava dams. They have recorded at least 5 major floods that occurred between 100,000 and 525,000 years ago after volcanoes erupted on the canyon's rim, spewed lava into the gorge and blocked the Colorado River.
Now I saw the news item picked up by internet YEC's back in 2002, but not "all over the news." Not in the news at all in my little circle, in fact. I dug into the matter at that time, mostly to find out about the cosmogenic dating method they used in the study.
I'll be interested in what DB has, too.
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