Grand Canyon of the Colorado River from Moran Point. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 1901.
Dates
Date Taken
1901
Summary
Album caption and index card: Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. View northeast from Moran Point, showing a portion of the great bend at the head of the Kaibab section. On the left, the Walhalla Plateau (a promontory of the Kaibab Plateau), terminating eastward in Cape Final. In the right background, the Painted Desert, fronted by the Palisades of the Desert. The dark rocks through which the river winds constitute the major part of the Algonkian or Grand Canyon series. They are viewed nearly at right angles to the strike. To the right of the middle is Chuar Butte, at the base of which the Paleozoic strata are sharply upturned along the great line of dislocation that delimits the Kaibab Plateau on the east. [Grand Canyon National [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. View northeast from Moran Point, showing a portion of the great bend at the head of the Kaibab section. On the left, the Walhalla Plateau (a promontory of the Kaibab Plateau), terminating eastward in Cape Final. In the right background, the Painted Desert, fronted by the Palisades of the Desert. The dark rocks through which the river winds constitute the major part of the Algonkian or Grand Canyon series. They are viewed nearly at right angles to the strike. To the right of the middle is Chuar Butte, at the base of which the Paleozoic strata are sharply upturned along the great line of dislocation that delimits the Kaibab Plateau on the east. [Grand Canyon National Park] Coconino County, Arizona.1901.
Note: Published as plate XXXI in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 613. 1916.
Available in U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Collection, Carkhuff, N.W. Collection.
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