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Geologists rewrite textbooks with new insights from the bottom of the Grand Canyon

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Geologists rewrite textbooks with new insights from the bottom of the Grand Canyon .

Edwin Dinwiddie McKee's landmark studies of Grand Canyon's sedimentary record have influenced generations of geoscientists.

McKee had no knowledge of plate tectonics or global sea level change.

His ideas were often shunned by the scientific community of the time.

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