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Grand Canyon National Park:
3D Geology Tours

Blue raft splashing through Hermit Rapid   Inner Gorge at Phantom Ranch   Watch Tower at Desert View   Toroweap Overlook
Colorado River Raft Tour
Take a virtual raft trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

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  Phantom Ranch Tour
Hike into the Grand Canyon to Phantom Ranch along the Kaibab and Bright Angel Trails.

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  South Rim Tour
Tour the South Rim from the Little Colorado River Gorge to the Canyon Village area.

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  Historic Tour
See imagery from John Wesley Powell's Second Expedition (1871-1872).

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Map of Grand Canyon National Park
Click on the map select a park or tour area.

3D glasses

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 learn more about Grand Canyon National Park (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/grca).

Click here to see historic 3D photography taken by the John Wesley Powell Survey of 1871-72.

Click here to learn about the USGS mapping expedition of 1923 through the Grand Canyon.

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
USGS Western Earth Surface Processes Team, Menlo Park, California.

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