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The canyon is thousands of feet deep in some places and is believed to have been carved by a river three million to seven million years ago.
"I was extremely surprised," Dr. Jean-Philippe Avouac, professor of geology at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif. and one of the researchers, said in a written statement. "When I first saw the data, I said, 'Wow!' It was amazing to see that the river once cut quite deeply into the Tibetan Plateau because it does not today. That was a big discovery."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/22/canyon-tibet-discovered_n_6199250.html
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