View from Desert View into the probably most famous gorge on the planet. The Colorado River has incised a canyon almost 1900 m deep into the uplifting Colorado Plateau, exposing a geological column that spans almost two billion years.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Thursday 25 September 2003 by Martin Mergili
- Keywords
- fluvial erosion, fluvial processes, sedimentary rocks, steppes and cold deserts, tectonics, Zonobiome VII
- Visits and license
- 5516 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license