Grand CanyonThe 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 | 1 |
WATER DOESNT RUN UPHILL | 15 |
STILL IN THE MAKING | 29 |
Copyright | |
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Algonkian Apus Archean Arizona become birds bottom Bright Angel buttes called cinder cliffs Coconino course creatures deer desert dinosaurs earth east fact flourishing flowers forest fossils geological geologist Grand Canyon grow Havasupai Hopi hundred feet hundred miles Indians inner gorge Jacob Lake John Hance Joseph Wood Krutch journey Kaibab limestone KAIBAB PLATEAU Kaibab squirrel Krutch land layer least less Little Colorado living look Mesozoic million Mormon mountains national park naturalist nature Navajo never north rim obviously once Paleozoic perhaps Permian Phantom Ranch pine plants and animals plateau Powell probably Redwall region river road rocks San Francisco Peaks sand sandstone seems seen shale side canyons slope sometimes south rim species squirrels stone stream Sunset Crater thing thousand feet tion tourist trail trees trilobites valley vegetation vertical visitors walls whole wilderness zone