Golden Gate Photo - Grand Canyon Gallery
Fine Art Photography from Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
The Grand Canyon is one of the world's best examples of earth history revealed. The Colorado River carves a path over one mile below the rim of the canyon, exposing strata ranging from 2 billion to 225 million years old. Included in this sequence are the granitic and metamorphic rocks lying in the deepest parts of the canyon, the overlying tilted strata which are evidence of 2 mountain-building and erosion episodes during the Precambrian era, and the overlying Paleozoic sequences of sandstone, shale, and limestone laid down from 570 to 225 million years ago. Over the last 65 million years, the region was uplifted and the canyon was carved. What you don't see here are the Mesozoic sediments that were laid down between 225 and 65 million years ago. Roughly equal in thickness to the sequence already exposed here, the Mesozoic strata were completely eroded at the Grand Canyon. They can be found to the north, though, in the cliffs and canyons of northern Arizona and southern Utah.
Double Rainbow in the Canyon Print No. B96-16 | |
Walking Tree of the Kaibab Trail Print No. A97SW-7-6 |
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Cape Royal Sunset Print No. A97SW-33-2 |
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Anticrepuscular Rays, Grand Canyon Print No. A97SW-31-3 |
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Bright Angel Canyon, Grand Canyon Print No. A03-7-8 |
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Gorge Close-Up Print No. A03-7-9 |
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Hopi Point View Print No. A03-6-11 |
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Hopi Point Sunset Print No. A03-8-8 |
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