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Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area:

A 3D Photographic Tour Featuring Park Geology

Click here to start a tour of Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked page series. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

Featured with this page are a collection of images of the Columbia River Plateau in central Washington including the Grand Coulee and Columbia River Gorge in that region.

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Map of Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of park images.

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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.

The U.S. National Forest Service website for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/columbia/forest/

For geologic maps and information about the Columbia River Plateau region check out these websites (USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington):

Columbia River Drainage - Columbia River Gorge: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Washington/ColumbiaRiver/framework.html

Columbia Plateau, Columbia River Basalt Group:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/ColumbiaPlateau/framework.html

Stratigraphic Subdivision of the Columbia River Basalt Group:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/PacificNW/AGU-T106/CRBG_stratigraphic.html

Map of Columbia River Flood Basalts:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/ColumbiaPlateau/Maps/map_columbia_river_flood_basalts.html

Columbia River Plateau Features Map:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/ColumbiaPlateau/Maps/map_columbia_plateau.html

America's Volcanic Past - Columbia Plateau and Vicinity:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_columbia_plateau.html

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

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

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