No lake, no flood The lake in question, called Hopi Lake or Lake Bidahochi, stretched about 112 miles (180 kilometers) across Arizona and New Mexico, a length equivalent to Utah's Great Salt Lake.

No lake, no flood The lake in question, called Hopi Lake or Lake Bidahochi, stretched approximately 112 miles (180 kilometers) across Arizona and New Mexico, a length equivalent to Utah's Great ...

Called the Bidahochi Formation, the rocks are evidence of a shallow, ephemeral playa lake, not a deep basin large enough to buzz saw its way through the Grand Canyon, Dickinson argues.