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Grand
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North Rim |
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Phoenix
to the North Rim |
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| Friday
September 24, 2004 (Day 1) |
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| On the Road / Marble Canyon Area / North Rim |
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| On
the Road |
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Pizza
time (Leighty) Lunch in Flagstaff at NiMarco's Pizza on South Beaver Street. |
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Ni
Marco's for lunch (Leighty) |
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Cameron
Trading Post (Leighty) Rest stop at the Cameron Trading Post on US 89A just south of the Little Colorado River. |
| Marble
Canyon Area |
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Navajo
Bridges (Leighty) The upstream bridge was built in 1928 and the downstream bridge in 1995. |
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Benchmark
(Leighty) Surveyed by the Arizona Highway Department in 1934 at 3535 feet above sea level. |
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View
upstream (Leighty) The eastern rim of the Colorado River gorge is capped by the Kaibab Formation with the Toroweap Formation below. Both are Permian in age, which is the youngest period of the Paleozoic Era (542 to 251 Ma).The well bedded, cliff-forming Kaibab forms uppermost layer in the Marble Canyon gorge. |
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View
upstream (Leighty) Lees Ferry, where many commercial river trips "put-in", is located a few miles north of the Navajo Bridges. |
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Permian
cliffs (Leighty) From top down: the Kaibab Formation overlies the Toroweap Formation. The Coconino Sandstone is first exposed along the river in this area. |
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Marble
Canyon and Vermillion Cliffs (Leighty) Massive exposures of the Redwall Limestone caused Powell in 1869 to refer to the Colorado River between the Paria River and the Little Colorado River as Marble Canyon. |
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Vermillion Cliffs and sky (Leighty) |
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Northern
Navajo Bridge (Leighty) Originally built in 1928, this bridge is now for pedestrians only. |
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East
wall of Marble Canyon (Leighty) The Kaibab and Toroweap Formations form a cliff that towers roughly 500 feet over the river. |
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Moenkopi
over Kaibab (Leighty) The distinctive erosion of the |
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Vermillion
Cliffs (Leighty) Moenkopi through Navajo. Moenkopi is a Hopi word meaning "Place of the running water." |
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Colorado
River sandbar (Leighty) This sandbar is located below the Navajo Bridges close to where the Coconino Sandstone first appears along the River. |
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Southern
Navajo Bridge (Leighty) The west end of the bridge is cut into the Kaibab Formation. |
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Kaibab
Formation (Leighty) Distinctively layered Kaibab along the west rim upstream from the bridges. |
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Kaibab
dolomite and chert (Leighty) Patrick and Donna caught posing in front of the Kaibab Formation, a fossiliferous marine unit composed mostly of dolomite and sandstone in the eastern Grand Canyon, but more limestone to the west. It is late Early Permian in age (roughly 275 to 270 Ma). |
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Balanced
rocks (Leighty) Talus blocks form pedestals as the softer Moenkopi mudstone is undercut by erosion. |
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Differential
erosion (Leighty) The obligatory tourist picture. |
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Jacob Lake rest stop (Leighty) |
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Campground
aspen (Leighty) Late September aspen turning on the North Rim. |
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Quaking
aspen (Leighty) Aspen trees in our North RIm campground. |
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North
Rim Group Campground #1 (Leighty) Rick surveys our spacious campground. |
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South
on the Transept Trail (Leighty) The group heads out from the campground along the Transept Trail. |
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Transept
Trail hike (Leighty) This trail follows the rim from the campground south to Bright Angel Point. |
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View south from the Transept Trail (Leighty) |
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Brahma
and Zoroaster (Leighty) Late afternnoon (~6 pm) light on Brahma and Zoroaster Temples. The light-colored cliffs are mostly Coconino Sandstone, whereas the reddish rocks below belong to the Hermit Shale and Supai Groups. Kendrick Mountain is on the skyline. |
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Brahma
and Zoroaster (Leighty) View to the S across Bright Angel Canyon of Brahma Temple (left) and Zoroaster Temple (right). Within the Hindu trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the four-headed Brahma is the creator. Zoroaster was a philosopher who founded a monotheistic religion around 700 B.C. that was concentrated on the spirit of good. It was once a popular religion in Persia. |
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Group
on the rim
(Leighty) See VIDEO. |
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Moonrise over the North Rim (Leighty) |
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Sunset
sentinels (Leighty) See PANORAMA. |
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View north along the Transept Trail (Leighty) |
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Waxing
gibbous (Leighty) The Moon looms above the canyon. |
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Trees and Moon (Leighty) |
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Waning sunlight (Leighty) |
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Sunset
group
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Fall
flames
(Leighty) See VIDEO. |
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Campfire (Leighty) |
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Campfire
critters (Leighty) Marilyn and Todd enjoy the campfire, while Humberto watches Easy Rider. |
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Campfire with flash (Leighty) |
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Campfire without flash (Leighty) |
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Kurt
and the campfire (Leighty) Herr Froelich mit cigarette. |
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Campfire
group
(Leighty) Terry, Sonny, Humberto, Donna, Todd, and Heidi. |
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