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"textContent": "The Grand Canyon may owe its shape to a giant ancient lake that, after collecting water for a million years, finally couldn't hold any more. A new study in Science backs the long-argued \"lake spillover\" idea, suggesting the ancestral Colorado River once pooled in northern Arizona about 6.6 million...",
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