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Aerial view northwest into Granite Park graben, Granite Park Canyon. Redwall Limestone is large gray cliff on right side of photograph.
View southeast toward thrust fault in Tapeats Sandstone, southeast side of Milkweed Canyon.
Aerial view northeast toward Butte Fault in Nankoweap Canyon, 2.5 miles southwest of river mile 52.5. Butte Fault, a normal fault, is in two parts here, one at location of this photograph and one just downstream of black Cardenas Basalt of Unkar Group (in photograph).
Fold in Tapeats Sandstone on east side of Butte Fault in Carbon Canyon, 1 mile west of river mile 65.0.
Aerial view northwest from over river mile 54.0 toward East Kaibab Monocline (top center of photograph) in Little Nankoweap Canyon.
View northeast along Hurricane Fault from west side of Two Hundred and Twentyfour Mile Canyon at Tapeats Sandstone level, just east of river mile 224.0.
Aerial view north along Hurricane Fault in Two Hundred and Seventeen Mile canyon toward upper Granite Park Canyon. Redwall Limestone lower left of photograph and upper right of photograph.
View northwest along Froggy Fault toward Parashant Canyon in red Supai Group of rocks.
View north into Hundred and Ninetythree Mile Creek from east side of Hurricane Fault. Redwall Limestone, right side of photograph; red Supai Group, left side.
View west toward small southwest-dipping sharp fold in Tapeats Sandstone in Monument Creek, below Tonto Trail, about three quarters of a mile south of river mile 94.0.
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 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).
Aerial view north toward Cocks Combs of East Kaibab Monocline, east side of Kaibab Plateau. Permian strata, including Esplanade Sandstone (lower cliff), Hermit Formation (red slope), Coconino Sandstone (white cliff), and Toroweap Formation (top of white cliff).
View northwest from Grandview Trail across Cottonwood Creek canyon toward northeast-dipping strata of Grandview Monocline (Redwall Limestone cliff, center of photograph).
View northeast down Bass Canyon toward Precambrian Wheeler Fold in lower Bass Canyon, center of photograph (photographs EF79, EF80) from Esplanade Sandstone level, west side of Bass Canyon.
View southeast toward Cremation and Tipoff Faults, horst and graben complex at The Tipoff of South Kaibab Trail as viewed from west of and above Phantom Ranch. Paleoproterozoic granite and schist (lower half of photograph), overlain by Mesoproterozoic Bass Formation of the Unkar Group (cliffs of strata above granite and schist, which mark the Greatest Angular Unconformity), in turn overlain by red slopes of Hakatai Shale and upper cliffs of Shinumo Sandstone, both of the Unkar Group.
Aerial view northwest toward overturned Redwall Limestone and lower Supai Group of strata on east side of Butte Fault, west side of Nankoweap Mesa. West-dipping Kwagunt Formation (white) and Galeros Formation (red) on west side of Butte Fault.
Aerial view northwest toward Muav Fault in Sagittarius pass, west arm of upper Tuna Creek, west of Point Sublime (Kaibab Formation rim, upper right of photograph). Bright Angel Shale (bottom of photograph), Redwall Limestone (large cliff, middle of photograph), Esplanade Sandstone (top of Scorpion Ridge, left edge of photograph), about 3 miles east of river mile 106.0.
Aerial view northwest toward Precambrian Chuar Syncline, south side of Nankoweap Butte and south of Nankoweap Canyon. Precambrian Sixtymile Formation caps butte that overlies white Kwagunt Formation of Chuar Group.
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