I share with you today some spectacular photos of the Grand Canyon, taken recently by my friends Tom and Laura Barreras from Bend, Oregon, during a trip they made with their children over spring break. A steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, USA, the Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile. The canyon and adjacent rim are contained within Grand Canyon National Park and other forests and national parks, some of which are protected by the Native American Indians.
President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the preservation of the Grand Canyon area and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. 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. (to be continued tomorrow) (click on each photo to enlarge)
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