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Lake Mead National Recreation Area:

A 3D Photographic Geology Tour

Click here to start a tour of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked page series. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

Click here to see tours of other national parks.

Map of Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of park images. Click on "stars" to see localities.
(Also see this map without locations shown.)

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3D glasses

This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3D visual effects.

Click here to see the same images in standard photography.

Click here to learn more about Lake Mead National Recreation Area (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/lame).

Click here to see a generalized geologic map of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Click here for a detailed geologic map of the Lake Mead region (1:100,000 scale map).

Click here to see a summary of the geologic history of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Click here for information about the stratigraphy of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

Click here to see more 3D geology tours of National Parks.

This website was prepared by Phil Stoffer
USGS Western Earth Surface Processes Team, Menlo Park, California.

U.S. Department of the Interior - U.S. Geological Survey - Geology Discipline
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