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A canyon formed over three days: http://futurity.org/earth-environment/megaflood-forms-canyon-in-3-days/

In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley. The waters excavated a 2.2-kilometer-long, 7-meter-deep canyon in the bedrock in just three days, new analysis shows. The finding, says Caltech geologist Michael Lamb, offers useful insight into ancient megafloods, both on Earth and on Mars, and the deep canyons they left behind.

The traditional view of deep river canyons, such as the Grand Canyon, is that they are carved slowly over periods of millions of years. The researchers argue that the rate of erosion in the 2002 flood was rapid because the flood was able to pop out and cart away massive boulders (a process called “plucking”)—producing several 10- to 12-meter-high waterfalls. [Via AllTop]

That's interesting. Seems to imply some of the geological phenomenon that would seem to take eons could happen in a timeline of weeks or months.

Maybe you don't have to be a creationist to believe the world was created in less than billions of years.