How was the great basin and plateau formed?

Answer 1

It was a lake holding some remaining flood waters from Noah's flood written about in the Old Testement. The walls of the lake collapsed, and the water drained out forming what is now the Grand Canyon.

Except when you actually look at geologic history.. you get a completely different answer.

The Great Basin is the largest area of watersheds where water does not flow into the Oceans in North America and is noted for its dry, desert like conditions and basin and range topography that varies from the North American lowpoint at Badwater Basin to-less than 100 miles away-the continental United States highpoint at the Mount Whitney summit. This area spans several different regions, natural biomes, deserts, and cities.

The Great Basin includes valleys, basins, lakes, and mountain ranges of Basin and Range topography. Basin and range is a geologic term for a type of topography characterized by a series of separate and parallel mountain ranges with broad valleys in between, extending over a wide area. Basin and range areas are created by crustal plates moving away from each other. . As the crust stretches, faults and cracks develop. The basins are blocks of crust that have sunk down and the ranges are relatively uplifted blocks, many of which tilt slightly in one direction at their tops. The normal arrangement in the basin and range system is that each valley is bounded on at least one side by one or more faults and oriented so they are parallel to the mountain ranges.

Sediment build-up over thousands of years between undersea mountain ranges created flat plains in underwater portions of the prehistoric area (that would be named the Great Basin after they drained) For example, after forming about 32,000 Years ago. Lake Bonneville overflowed around 14,500 years ago in the Bonneville Flood through red rock pass and lowered to the "Provo Lake" level. Bonneville had many levels as it continually dropped and then settled, most of which can be seen as a "bathtub ring" line along the Wasatch front mountain range and in the Great Basin National Park.

Answer 2

it was formed from tectonic plates colliding into one another creating rifts that have Horst and grabens Horst are peaks and grabens are the lowest point between 2 Horst

Answer 3

The Great Basin Region was formed by plate tectonics, weather, earthquake's, volcanic activity, rivers, water falls ,and etc

Answer 4

They believe by a volcano and earthquake.