The answer is erosion that's what made the formation grand canyon
"Due to its lack of international and domestic conflict as well as its low crime rate, the Global Peace Index in 2016 ranks the Czech Republic as the sixth safest place to live on earth."
http://thefactfile.org/czech-republic-facts/
When I created a country I called it Fire Realms. You could do something based off of that.
<span>The populations are already sparse (due to being mainly desert) added to the fact that there is a huge influx of people seeking work oppotunities in the oil industry, from Westerners to Asian communities. This swamps the local population. </span>
