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Question: What is Why do we think the Tapeats Sandstone was deposited in a near-shore marine environment? 5) How have the Depositional Environments changed during the Paleozoic? List them. 6) What feature or property of the rocks causes rapids to form in the Colorado River? 7) What sort of life existed in the Hermit Shale? 8) How is the Coconino Sandstone different from most of the other Grand Canyon rocks? 9) Were there more sedimentary rocks on top of the Kaibab Limestone (which makes up most of the rim of the Grand Canyon)? If so, what happened to them? 10) What has been one effect of volcanoes in the Grand Canyon?the age of the rocks in the Inner Gorge? When the Colorado river carved the canyons, rocks that are as old as 2 billion years old became exposed in the Inner Gorge. The rocks in the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon are among the oldest exposed rocks on Earth. Additionally, these rocks belong to a unit called the Vishnu Basement Unit, which date back to 1.7 to 2 billion years old. 3) How fast do the tectonic plates move? Tectonic plates move on average, between 0.4 to 6.3