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Album caption and index card: The mouth of the Little Colorado River as seen from Cape Solitude, 1,167 meters above the river level. This upstream view of the Colorado River was taken after the completion of Glen Canyon Dam and during a period of low flow when Lake Powell was filling. From this vantage point, the interrupted line of dense vegetation marking the flood level is visible, especially on the left bank. A few shrubs (circle) have become established below the upper fringe of plants. The Little Colorado River enters from the right, and its waters appear turbid in this July view. A dense stand of riparian vegetation lines its left bank. (Altitude is 826 meters). Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County,...
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Album caption and index card: View of the Colorado River overlooking Badger Creek rapids from a point above the left bank just north of Jackass Creek, 12.6 kilometers below Lees Ferry. Slopewash blankets the Hermit Shale Formation at river level here. The cliffs visible above consist of the Lower Permian Coconino Sandstone and overlying Toroweap Formations. At the time of this photograph, the discharge for the day at Lees Ferry was 2,799 m3/s. Note the large shrub surrounded by water just off the right bank. This shrub persists in the 1972 photograph (photo trm00021). (Altitude is 939 meters). Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. June 19, 1952. (Photo by R.S. Leding, National Park Service). (Several...
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Album caption and index card: On the date of this photograph showing the mouth of Bright Angel Creek, Glen Canyon Dam had been completed and the water was being impounded in the reservoir area above it. No plants occur at the river's edge. Most of the boulders on the beach are the same in this and the earlier photograph (photo no. 48). Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. 1963. (Photo by James Blaisdell and Andrew Wolfe, National Park Service). Portion published as Figure 50-B in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional Paper 1132. 1980.
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Album caption and index card: Most boatman agree that Lava Falls Rapids, which lies 288.5 kilometers below Lees Ferry, represents the greatest hazard to navigation on the Colorado River. This remarkable photograph was taken of the rapids from the right bank looking toward the mouth of Prospect Canyon. Flow in the river was approximately 1,473 m3/s. The great turbulence created when the water encounters erosional debris from Prospect Canyon is clearly seen. The large dark shrubs in this view were still present in 1976 (see photo trm00068). Some of the shrubs on the opposite bank are desert broom. (Altitude 511 meters). Geologist at left on rock for scale. Grand CAnyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. June...
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Album caption and index card: This photograph is the first in a set of three tha spans 20 years. This photograph is taken from the Kaibab Trail just above the Kaibab Suspension Bridge, 140.6 kiolometers below Lees Ferry, and shows the mouth of Bright Angel Creek. The debris fan at the mouth of Bright Angel Canyon is devoid of plants except on higher ground where western honey mesquite is the dominant large plant. The large trees around the base of the hill near midground are Fremont cottonwoods. Phantom Ranch is out of view upstream on Bright Angel Creek. The area near the mouth of Bright Angel Creek is the most heavily visited location in the bottom of the Grand Canyon and is served by two trails from the south...
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Album caption and index card: This upstream view of the Colorado River is from the Navajo Bridge on U.S. Highway 89, 6.9 kilometers below Lees Ferry. The bridge was completed in 1928, after which the ferry at Lees Ferry was abandoned. The vertical cliffs expose rocks of the Lower Permian and Toroweap Formation overlying Kaibab Limestone. The interrupted dense thicket is immediately above the infrequently flooded high water level and is composed of netleaf hackberry and Apache plume. Bare beaches of sand appear at this river stage. (Altitude is 942 meters). Grand Canyon National Park. Coconino County, Arizona. October 21, 1952. (Photo by R.S. Leding, National Park Service). Published as Figure 35-A in U.S. Geological...
    map background search result map search result map Upstream view of the Colorado River taken from the Navajo Bridge on U.S. Highway 89. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Colorado River overlooking Badger Creek rapids, viewed from a point above the left bank just north of Jackass Creek. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Mouth of the Little Colorado River, viewed from Cape Solitude, 1167 meters above the river level. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1963. First in a set of three of Bright Angel Creek, viewed from Kaibab Trail just above the Kaibab Suspension Bridge. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Second in a set of three of Bright Angel Creek, viewed from Kaibab Trail just above the Kaibab Suspension Bridge. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1963. Lava Fall Rapids, viewed from the right bank looking toward the mouth of Prospect Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1950. Upstream view of the Colorado River taken from the Navajo Bridge on U.S. Highway 89. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Colorado River overlooking Badger Creek rapids, viewed from a point above the left bank just north of Jackass Creek. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Mouth of the Little Colorado River, viewed from Cape Solitude, 1167 meters above the river level. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1963. First in a set of three of Bright Angel Creek, viewed from Kaibab Trail just above the Kaibab Suspension Bridge. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1952. Second in a set of three of Bright Angel Creek, viewed from Kaibab Trail just above the Kaibab Suspension Bridge. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1963. Lava Fall Rapids, viewed from the right bank looking toward the mouth of Prospect Canyon. Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona. 1950.