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What forms a canyon or How do canyons form?

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Canyons are formed by stream down-cutting, usually in arid areas, where the rate of down-cutting is greater than the rate of weathering, and where the stream or river receives water from outside the area.

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Relevant answers:

What forms canyon?
A river carves out a canyon. It is an example of erosion.
How does a canyon form?
usually by a river or stream, erosion.....
What forms a canyon?
Normally it's naturally formed by water flow and sometimes the spread of the tectonic plates.
How can canyons form?
Canyons are formed when water flows over a piece of land for a long time, millions of years even, eventually causing a canyon, which is what happened when the Grand Canyon was formed.
How do canyons form?
Water can carve out canyons and also the water erodes away some of the rock.