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Titus Canyon
The Hourglass NarrowsAs one moves through the canyon, the slopes become steeper and closer together, forming the more famous hourglass narrows. This section exposes the erosive action of water and debris flows from the upper canyon that have worn away the limestone walls, smoothing them into polished textures. The walls bear the marks of countless flash floods and mudflows that have incrementally sculpted the canyon over thousands of years. At the bottom of the narrows, there is a collection of sediment and debris in an alluvial fan, a cone-shaped deposit of sand, gravel, and rocks. An alluvial fan can be large or small, depending on the size of the drainage basin above it. Compared with other surrounding canyons, Titus Canyon's fan is very small because its drainage basin is small.< back - index - forward > |
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