Details Relating to Hunt’s Proposal
574. 
Layering,
Limestone,
Why Here? 
Why So “Recently”?
Marble Canyon,
Distant Cavern Connection,
Perpendicular Faults,
Arching,
Inner Gorge,
Missing Talus,
Colorado Plateau,
Unusual Erosion,
Nankoweap Canyon. Same as item 531.
575.
Side Canyons,
Barbed Canyons,
Slot Canyons. Same as item 532.
576.
Forces, Energy, and Mechanisms. Same as item 567.
577.
Missing Mesozoic Rock. Same as item 535.
578.
Missing River, Missing Dirt. Same as item 534.
Hunt proposed what he admitted was an “outrageous” idea;87 namely, that the 650-foot-thick Hualapai Limestone was deposited just outside the western edge of the Grand Canyon by underground drainage from a higher lake far to the south. Why that underground drainage channel did not become clogged with all the sediments entering from the upper lake was never explained. Nor have underground channels been found there, and no evidence has turned up to support Hunt’s proposed path for the early Colorado River.88
The Hualapai Limestone is found at several locations, not only outside the mouth of the Grand Canyon. Usually, underground drainage occurs along the first path to develop, not on multiple paths to several distant lakes. Also, the Hualapai Limestone occurs in layers that lie at different depths just west of the Grand Canyon, not simply at the top of that section, as Hunt claimed.89
579.
Fossils. Same as item 536.
580.
Tipped Layers below the Great Unconformity. Same as item 537.
581.
Time or Intensity? Same as item 538.
582.
Other. Hunt’s explanation is based primarily on his claim that the early Colorado River flowed far south of its present course and ponded in a large basin north of Kingman, Arizona. To support this contention, Hunt cited a Ph.D. thesis being written by Richard Young. Young had concluded that the 70-mile-long channel into this lake sloped in a direction that would not have allowed the flow that Hunt wanted. Hunt simply claimed the opposite and cited Young as supporting his view. Young, inexperienced and intimidated by the senior Hunt, admits that he acquiesced and reworded his conclusion in a fuzzy way that let Hunt reach his desired conclusion.90 Young has admitted that his true conclusion was “enough to falsify the core of Hunt’s theory.” 91 Unfortunately, stature and the desire to advance sometimes trump truth.