Panorama from Point Sublime. Sketch shows a view about southeast along the axis of the Kaibab upwarp. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. No date.
Summary
Album caption and index card: The panorama from Point Sublime. View is about southeast along the axis of the Kaibab upwarp. In the distant skyline, right, is San Francisco Mountain and other volcanoes in the volcanic field south of the Grand Canyon. The plateau surface is Permian limestone (Kaibab Limestone); the canyon walls seen in this view are mostly the Permian, Pennsylvanian, and Mississippian Formation. Altitude of the rim here is about 8,200 feet; bottom of the canyon (out of sight) is below 3,000 feet. San Francisco Mountain, about 70 miles away, is above 12,600 feet. Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. n.d. (Sketch by W.H. Holmes). Published as Plate 28, U.S. Geological Survey. Monograph 2. 1882; Plate [...]
Summary
Album caption and index card: The panorama from Point Sublime. View is about southeast along the axis of the Kaibab upwarp. In the distant skyline, right, is San Francisco Mountain and other volcanoes in the volcanic field south of the Grand Canyon. The plateau surface is Permian limestone (Kaibab Limestone); the canyon walls seen in this view are mostly the Permian, Pennsylvanian, and Mississippian Formation. Altitude of the rim here is about 8,200 feet; bottom of the canyon (out of sight) is below 3,000 feet. San Francisco Mountain, about 70 miles away, is above 12,600 feet. Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. n.d. (Sketch by W.H. Holmes).
Published as Plate 28, U.S. Geological Survey. Monograph 2. 1882; Plate 31 in U.S. Geological Survey. Annual Report, no. 2, 1880-1881. 1882; Frontispiece in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 669-C. 1969.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Library Photographic Collection, McKee, E.D. Collection.
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