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Aerial view south and downriver from river mile 211.9 toward a Precambrian “island” of schist (photographs WM07, WM08, WM09) during the basal Cambrian sea encroachment, right bank of river mile 212.5.
Calcite and other minerals in travertine vein that fills a fault plane in upper Diamond Creek canyon.
View north toward Meriwhitica Monocline from trail in Meriwhitica Canyon, about 2 miles southwest of Meriwhitica Springs. Redwall Limestone is large upper gray cliff.
View south and downriver toward Coconino Sandstone (black layer at river level), overlain by cliff of Brady Canyon Member of Toroweap Formation on west side of river mile 4.7.
Aerial view north towards Vulcans Throne volcano in distance on north side of river mile 179.3. View in foreground is north along Toroweap Fault in lower Prospect Canyon at faulted unnamed Pleistocene cinder cone and alluvium on east side of Prospect Canyon. Mount Trumbull (Pliocene basalt) on skyline, left side of photograph.
View west toward Cottonwood Spring, north wall of Redwall Limestone in Green Spring Canyon.
Aerial view north into Surprise Canyon, about 3 miles northeast of river mile 248.8. Muav Limestone (canyon bottom), Redwall Limestone (large gray cliff), Supai Group strata (reddish cliffs and slopes, upper right skyline), Permian strata (distant canyon rims), and Pliocene volcano of Mount Dellenbaugh (distant skyline).
Aerial view west toward landslide of Toroweap Formation (photograph EL18) on east side of Nankoweap Mesa, about 1 mile southwest of river mile 53.5.
View southeast toward lower Supai village area of the Havasupai Reservation, from rim of Esplanade Sandstone, just south of Navajo Falls. Pliocene alluvial valley floor, Watahomigi Formation (lower slope), Manakacha Formation (large cliff), Wescogame Formation (upper slope and ledges), and Esplanade Sandstone cliff (forms inner canyon plateau).
Black river-polished amphibolitic schist, west (left) bank of river mile 127.5.
Photograph showing breccia in breccia pipe in Redwall Limestone, 1 mile southwest of river mile 232.0.
Aerial view northeast toward Grand Gulch copper mine and breccia pipe in Pakoon Limestone.
Aerial view west across Spencer Canyon toward Quaternary travertine dam in Meriwhitica Canyon (large gray cliff at canyon floor, middle part of photograph). Precambrian granite at Spencer Canyon bottom, Redwall Limestone at canyon rims.
View north from Esplanade Sandstone toward Forster Canyon breccia pipe (white bleached zone in Watahomigi and Manakacha Formations of Supai Group) in west wall of Forster Canyon, a half mile southwest of river mile 123.4.
View west toward east wall of Grand Canyon of contacts between Redwall Limestone (upper half of cliff), dark-gray Temple Butte Formation cliff, Cambrian unclassified dolomites, and Muav Limestone from river mile 266.0.
View east from Bass Trail across river toward Precambrian Wheeler Fold on north side of river mile 108.3. Mesoproterozoic rocks including Cardenas Basalt (black rock, lower right edge of photograph), Bass Formation (white strata, left side of photograph, Wheeler Fold, bottom center, and white ledges, base of upper cliffs), Hakatai Shale (brown cliff and upper gray ledges, upper center of photograph), and Shinumo Sandstone (brown cliff, upper edge of photograph).
View upriver toward west wall of Grand Canyon from river mile 272.0. Muav Limestone at river (Lake Mead) level to Pakoon Limestone/Esplanade Sandstone at skyline.
View west and downriver from river mile 45.0 toward Triple Alcoves, a cave in lower part of Redwall Limestone (below white salt stain), Marble Canyon.
Aerial view northwest toward Lizard Dike (basalt) cutting through Solomon Temple Member (lower red), Comanche Point Member (red and white), and Ochoa Point Member (upper red) of Dox Formation below Cardenas Basalt (black) of Unkar Group, and east-dipping Nankoweap Formation (purple ledges) from above river mile 71.7. Great Unconformity at base of brown horizontal Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone cliff.
View north toward two Devonian channels filled with Temple Butte Formation (left and right center of photograph), north wall of Saddle Canyon, just west of river mile 47.4.
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