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View northeast toward southwest side of Twin Butte, landslide-covered Triassic Moenkopi Formation capped by Pliocene basalt.
Aerial view northwest toward Surprise Canyon Formation (dark red) in channel eroded into Redwall Limestone, west wall of Two Hundred and Seventeenmile Canyon.
Aerial view northeast toward Temple Butte Formation, upper slope, middle cliff, and upper half of lower slope below cliff of Redwall Limestone (top left of photograph), three quarters of a mile west of river mile 216.5.
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.
Aerial view northeast and upriver toward Little Colorado River delta (right) and Colorado River (left) confluence from west of river mile 62.0.
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.
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.
Aerial view northwest toward Vesta Temple in foreground and Diana Temple in background, south rim of Grand Canyon, about 3 miles west of river mile 97.0. Pennsylvanian strata below red cliff (bottom of photograph), Permian strata from red Esplanade Sandstone cliff to rim. Hermit Formation (red slope below white cliff), Coconino Sandstone (white cliff), Toroweap Formation (slope, white ledge, slope), and Kaibab Formation (top cliff of Vesta and Diana Temple).
View west from Clear Creek Trail toward outcrop of Paleoproterozoic Zoroaster Granite, about 1 mile west of Clear Creek and a half mile north of river mile 85.5. Granite outcrop formed a small island during deposition of Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone, which lapped onto the north side of the island (foreground, right side of photograph).
View north from south side of Little Colorado River toward confluence with Colorado River near river mile 61.8. Tapeats Sandstone at river level.
View west and downriver at Tapeats Sandstone in Conquistador Aisle from Blacktail Canyon, river mile 120.8.
View of contorted bedding within gypsum and siltstone of Shnabkaib Member of Moenkopi Formation, just east of Sevier Fault, Pipe Spring National Monument, northern Arizona.
Aerial view west toward Surprise Canyon Formation in channel on top of Redwall Limestone, southwest of Fern Glen Canyon, northwest of river mile 169.0.
View northwest toward Surprise Canyon Formation (dark red) on west side of Prospect Canyon, just south of river mile 179.7.
View northwest and upriver from Beamer Trail toward river narrows of Tapeats Sandstone, from top of Tapeats Sandstone on east side of river mile 64.1.
View west toward west wall of Little Colorado River canyon from south rim, just downstream of Hellhole Bend. Manakacha Formation at river level, Kaibab Formation at canyon rim.
View northwest toward south end of Nankoweap Mesa from east rim of Grand Canyon, 1 mile east of river mile 57.0.
View east from north side of South Canyon at Redwall Limestone level, about a quarter mile west of river mile 32.0, toward east wall of Marble Canyon, east of river mile 31.8.
View north toward west wall of unnamed canyon and Surprise Canyon Formation in channel cut into Redwall Limestone, directly beneath the future Grand Canyon Skywalk.
Aerial view northeast toward Marble Canyon Airport on Kaibab Formation surface, west of river mile 4.8.
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