Artificial Canyon
This five-mile trip takes you through a geologically interesting artificial canyon.
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Point of interest along the tour leg.
In the spring of 1926, when the water of the Burlingame Irrigation Ditch was diverted for one week into a diversion channel, a miniature Grand Canyon, in places 100 feet wide and 100 feet deep, was created; thousands of tons of silt were carried to the Columbia. In the walls of this gully, the stratified deposits of an ancient lake bed may be advantageously studied. Deep-well drilling in artesian basins...
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