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Desert Southwest

175 images Created 28 Jan 2011

The desert southwest of the United States is a place of unique and unparalleled beauty. Throughout this region there are innumerable examples of nature's own design. Especially intriguing are the sensuous creations shaped by erosion of sandstone.
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  • Havasu Canyon is a paradisiacal gorge where turquoise waters cascade into travertine pools and graceful willows and lofty cottonwoods provide shade and greenery in an extraordinary setting of towering red sandstone cliffs beneath a cerulean sky. It is a side branch of the Grand Canyon that was once the home of a prehistoric people but more recently it has been the occupied by the Havasupai for the past 800 years.
    HavasuFallsSunset2.jpg
  • The Colorado River meandering through the Marble Canyon section of Grand Canyon National Park with barrel cacti in foreground
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  • Matkatamiba Canyon is a side canyon to the Grand Canyon accessible from the Colorado River<br />
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The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai Tribe and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.<br />
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile. Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.<br />
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon ("Ongtupqa" in the Hopi language) a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
    GrandCanyonMatkatamiba2.jpg
  • Dead tree contrasted against a sandstone wall in the South Coyote Buttes unit of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument
    SouthCoyoteButtesDeadTree.jpg
  • Rock formations in the North Coyote Buttes unit of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument
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  • Ancient Anaszi ruins high above the Colorado River in the Marble Canyon section of Grand Canyon National Park
    NankoweapRuins3.jpg
  • The Colorado River from Cardenas in the interior of the canyon
    GrandCanyonCardenas1.jpg
  • Shiprock, (Navajo: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" or "winged rock") is a rock formation rising nearly 1,800 feet (550 m) above the high-desert plain on the Navajo Nation and in San Juan County, New Mexico
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  • Classic view of the Mittens and Merrick Butte in Monument Valley, AZ
    MonumentValleyMittens1.jpg
  • Abstract patterns in Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona
    AntelopeAbstractCurve1.jpg
  • Water runs through a narrow slit carved by the water in the soft sandstone in Zion National Park, Utah, USA
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  • Sand dunes near Yei-bi-Chai rocks in Monument Valley, AZ
    MonumentValleyTotemPoles2.jpg
  • The Colorado River meandering through the Marble Canyon section of Grand Canyon National Park
    GrandCanyonMarbleCanyon4.jpg
  • Lower Antelope Canyon "tunnel"
    AntelopeOpenings.jpg
  • Cascades and fall leaves at North Creek in the Subway area of Zion National Park, Utah
    SubwayCascadeCloseup.jpg
  • Havasu Creek is a side stream to the Colorado River in the interior of the Grand Canyon<br />
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The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in the United States. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, the Havasupai Tribe and the Navajo Nation. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.<br />
The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, up to 18 miles wide and attains a depth of over a mile. Nearly two billion years of Earth's geological history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. While the specific geologic processes and timing that formed the Grand Canyon are the subject of debate by geologists, recent evidence suggests that the Colorado River established its course through the canyon at least 17 million years ago. Since that time, the Colorado River continued to erode and form the canyon to its present-day configuration.<br />
For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon and its many caves. The Pueblo people considered the Grand Canyon ("Ongtupqa" in the Hopi language) a holy site, and made pilgrimages to it. The first European known to have viewed the Grand Canyon was García López de Cárdenas from Spain, who arrived in 1540.
    GrandCanyonHavasuCreek2.jpg
  • Bryce Canyon National Park, a sprawling reserve in southern Utah, is known for crimson-colored hoodoos, which are spire-shaped rock formations. The park’s main road leads past the expansive Bryce Amphitheater, a hoodoo-filled depression lying below the Rim Trail hiking path. It has overlooks at Sunrise Point, Sunset Point, Inspiration Point and Bryce Point. Prime viewing times are around sunup and sundown.
    BryceThorsHammerSnow3-LAB.jpg
  • Vasey's Paradise also known as "Vaseys Paradise", is an oasis approximately 1.5 miles below the Mile 30 Sand Bar on the Colorado River in Coconino county, Arizona, United States. In a semi desert region it supports dense vegetation watered by waterfalls emanating from groundwater emerging from the upper cliff faces. The area hosts a federally listed endangered species of snail (Kanab ambersnail) and is a highly sensitive habitat. It is within the Grand Canyon National Park.
    GrandCanyonVaseysParadise1.jpg
  • The Colorado River meandering through the Marble Canyon section of Grand Canyon National Park
    GrandCanyonMarbleCanyon1.jpg
  • Vishnu Schist, Grand Canyon National Park.  This is the bottommost and oldest layer of rock exposed in the canyon, around 2 billion years old!
    GrandCanyonVishnuSchist1-B&W.jpg
  • Agave Americana, or Century Plant, photographed in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in Texas.  The tiny yellow blossom between the leaves of the plant is not an agave blossom.
    CenturyPlantAndFlower (Nikon).jpg
  • Sunrise at the far end of Hunt's Mesa above Monument Valley, Arizona
    MonumentValleyFirstRays1.jpg
  • Teardrop Arch in Monument Valley, AZ
    MonumentValleyTeardrop1.jpg
  • The Narrows part of the Virgin River in Zion National Park, Utah
    NarrowsTreeAndSlit2.jpg
  • Saguaro cactus in bloom in Saguaro National Park (West Unit), near Phoenix, Arizona
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