Grand Canyon: Today and All Its YesterdaysThe famous naturalist's portrait of the Grand Canyon includes an account of its geologic history, sections on its modern inhabitants, explorers, and events; and a call for environmental conservation of this natural wonder. |
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Where solitude is easy to find | 3 |
Water doesnt run uphill | 18 |
Still in the making | 33 |
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Algonkian ancient Apus Archean Arizona become birds bottom Bright Angel buttes called cliffs Coconino course creatures deer desert dinosaurs earth fact Farther journey flourishing flowers forest fossils geological geologists GRAND CANYON grow Hopi hundred feet hundred miles Indians inhabitants inner gorge Jacob Lake John Hance Kaibab limestone KAIBAB PLATEAU Lake Mead land layer least less Little Colorado living longer longest ten miles look Mesozoic million mountain mule national park Navajo Navajo Bridge never north rim world obviously once Paleozoic perhaps Permian Phantom Ranch pine plateau population Powell probably Redwall region river road rocks San Francisco Peaks sand sandstone sawflies seems seen shale shalt thou go slope solitude sometimes south rim species squirrels stone stream Sunset Crater things thousand feet tion tourist trail trees trilobites valley vegetation visited visitors walls whole wilderness Window-shopping zone