Google and DDG can't find the page where there was some agreement that the Grand Canyon is a Lichtenberg figure. I found this video on Youtube that purports to examine the various claims on the Canyon's origin.
Creation controversy: Grand Canyon He goes on about how the first explorers viewed it from the river, and later they viewed it from the rim. Covers New Creationists and Old Creationists and the Native American story, and how the naming implicated all the World's religions.
No mention of the view from LEO.
www.cosmic-core.org: Article 132: The Holographic Universe - Part 1 - Fractals & Holography
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“The Grand Canyon is approximately 400 kilometers long, 28 kilometers wide, and almost two kilometers deep. Could erosion by the Colorado River be the only factor in its formation?
A few basic facts are necessary to gain a perspective. The Grand Canyon is surrounded by an elevated landscape with the canyon running through it from east to west. The underlying rock strata in the region rises and falls over an area known as the Kaibab Upwarp, while the river descends through an elevation differential of 2100 meters. Water does not flow up over a mountain range nor does it run sideways along sloping terrain, so all theoretical models that insist on water erosion propose that the entire area was slowly uplifted at the same rate as the river eroded the canyon. This process is said to have taken place in a time span of between four million and 400 million years.
.... Perhaps the most significant challenge to the prevailing theories is the disappearance of almost 1300 cubic kilometers of material that is supposed to have been washed downstream—there is no large delta at the mouth of the Colorado River containing the debris.
Satellite images, as well as pictures taken by astronauts in orbit, seem to indicate that the Grand Canyon is an enormous Lichtenberg figure, in other words, a gigantic lightning scar. As the Electric Universe hypothesis suggests, electric discharge machining (EDM) might account for the Canyon’s appearance: steep walls, thousands of layers, brachiated side canyons at practically every scale, and periodic, hemispherical “nips” cut into each rim.
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1300 cubic kilometers of material straight into Inner Space.
The linked page is a pretty good one. It cover fractals, holograms and the Platonic solids as closest packed spheres.