Click here to start a tour of the inner Grand Canyon from the perspective of a raft trip down the Colorado River between Lees Ferry and Lake Mead. 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. |
This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects. |
Click here to see the same images in standard photography. |
Click here to see historic 3D photography taken by the John Wesley Powell Survey of 1871-72. Click here to learn more about sedimentary rock formations exposed in the Grand Canyon. Geologic maps of the Grand Canyon include: Billingsley, George H., 2000, Geologic Map of the Grand Canyon 30' by 60' Quadrangle, Coconino and Mohave Counties, Northwestern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigation Series I-2688, Available on-line at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2688/, Billingsley, George H. and Wellmeyer, Jessica L., 2004, Geologic Map of the Mount Trumbull 30' x 60' Quadrangle, Mohave and Coconin Counties, Northwestern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigation Series I-2766, Available on-line at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2766/, |
Click here to see more 3-D geology tours of National Parks.
This website was prepared by Phil Stoffer and Paula Messina
USGS Western Earth Surface Processes
Team, Menlo Park, California.
U.S.
Department of the Interior - U.S.
Geological Survey - Geology
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