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USA - Arizona, Grand Canyon National Park
One of the most famous Grand Canyon National Park is one of the most well known national parks in the USA. It is considered being one of the seven wonders of nature. Millions of years ago a part of the earth's crust was pushed up, creating the Colorado Plateau of which the Grand Canyon is now a part. Over millions of years the Colorado River has made its way through the rocky layers of the plateau, where the rocks were (and still are) polished further and further. Because each rock layer consists of a different type of rock, the effects of the force of the water are different everywhere. This has created a complicated system of deep, capriciously shaped ravines. Besides the Colorado River other erosive forces, such as frost and wind, have also had a great influence.
The dimensions of the canyon are enormous with a length of 446 km’s and a width between 18 and 29 km’s. The maximum depth is about 1.600 meters. The area became a national monument on 11 January 1908 and a national park on 26 February 1919. In 1979 the park was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
We visited several viewpoints of the Grand Canyon between Grand Canyon Village and Desert View. At the last one we were during sunset and could admire the beautiful colours of sky and ravine walls.
Without any doubt Grand Canyon was one of the highlights of our visit to Arizona/Utah, but to be honest the (impressive) landscape at the different viewpoints was often more or less the same.
The dimensions of the canyon are enormous with a length of 446 km’s and a width between 18 and 29 km’s. The maximum depth is about 1.600 meters. The area became a national monument on 11 January 1908 and a national park on 26 February 1919. In 1979 the park was placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
We visited several viewpoints of the Grand Canyon between Grand Canyon Village and Desert View. At the last one we were during sunset and could admire the beautiful colours of sky and ravine walls.
Without any doubt Grand Canyon was one of the highlights of our visit to Arizona/Utah, but to be honest the (impressive) landscape at the different viewpoints was often more or less the same.
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Amazing landscape!
Superb images of this famous Grand Canyon
Thank you also for the note, Jaap
Have a nice day
A superb series of images in the PiPs too..........it's always good to see a bit more context of the area. I think my fave PiP has to be the last one - the "almost sunset" view. The light is absolutely gorgeous, especially where it lights up the right hand side of the rocks. The sky is pretty amazing too.
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Lipan Point is a stunner too amongst some great shots!
Regards TOZ.
Magnifique série !
Whether they are "often more or less the same" shows through on your very beautiful series, with however colors and atmospheres varying with the time of day.
The Grand Canyon is an interesting place because on the one hand, it's totally amazing to see something that is so vast and deep that it can be seen from space. And yet, to stand there and stare out at the wonder of it all...well, to be honest, I was really surprised that it didn't impress me as much as I'd expected. I remember seeing the GC when I was 21 and being really kind of "meh" about it. I thought it was cool but after I'd seen Bryce and Arches and Zion and Yosemite and Yellowstone...the picturesque qualities of the GC just don't really hold up except for its sheer vastness. However, I *WAS* STUNNED at what was under my very feet. Zillions of shells! EVERYWHERE! I was a-gawk at the prehistoric shells everywhere and THAT hit a home-run for me. I stood in wonder. Thinking about the age of these shells. The reality that had to be in order for them to be where I was standing. This to me, was far more impressive to me than the chasm just in front of me because I could really understand the whole thing now. The age of our planet, the gargantuan lengths of time from the birth of our spinning speck of space flotsam through the millions upon millions upon millions of years...and there I stood, on top of shells that were once under the ocean. WOW.
I agree with you about the sameness of the view wherever you are along the canyon. That too, left me feeling a little strange...I was supposed to be amazed...but...I just wasn't. Don't get me wrong, the GC is something everyone should see, but I believe that everyone needs to stand on those shells and to think about our planet in order to get the real picture of this place. It's more than a view. It's an understanding of who we are and how tiny and insignificant we are in the scheme of things. *respectful bow to the memory of our beloved Carl Sagan*
unfortunately my slides made there in 1986 are not so good in quality, but those in Monument Valley were better, I don't know why.....
Wünsche noch einen schönen Adventsonntag,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))
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