Spring 2009
Grand Canyon Tanner Trail

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* The following pages contain imagery from a April 2009 GLG121 class field trip to the Grand Canyon area.
* If anyone woould like a high-resolution original or has field trip imagery that they'd like to post here, email Bob Leighty.
* Images have been significantly reduced in size from the originals. Images are typically reduced to 1024 pixels in long dimension from the high resolution originals. Click on the images to enlarge.
* Images and videos are by author noted in the caption. All imagery is copyrighted and cannot be used for any commercial purposes without permission.
* Some text (usually in bold) will be hyperlinked for further clarification of various terms and concepts.
* Numerical dates for geologic time are mostly taken from the International Commission on Stratigraphy.
* A number of resources were used in the following pages, including:
Geologic Map of the Eastern Part of the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (Billingsley and others, 1996)
Trails Illustrated Grand Canyon National Park topographic map, 1:73,530 (National Geographic Maps, 2000)
Desert View Quadrangle, U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute topographic map.