Geology of National Parks

Canyon de Chelly National Monument:

A Photographic Geology and Natural History Tour

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Click here to start a tour of Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

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Map of Canyon de Chelley National Monument
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Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly   Lower Canyon de Chelly
Spider Rock Spider Rock Spider Rock Spider Rock   Canyon de Chelly
Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly   Lower Canyon de Chelly
Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly Canyon rim pothole   Alcove with ruins
Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly   Lower Canyon de Chelly
Alcove with ruins Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly Creek   Canyon de Chelly creek
Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly   Lower Canyon de Chelly
White House Ruins White House Ruins desert varnish Canyon de Chelly   rock fin
Lower Canyon de Chelly Lower Canyon de Chelly   Lower Canyon de Chelly
rock fin Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly desert plants   Canyon de Chelly
Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelley Canyon de Chelley Canyon de Chelley Canyon de Chelley   Slide House
Spider Rock Spider Rock Canyon de Chelly Slide House   Canyon de Chelly
canyon de chelly Canyon de Chelley Canyon de Chelly White House   Lower Canyon de Chelley
Canyon de Chelly Canyon de Chelly White House White House   Lower Canyon de Chelly
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Hillers (1875) photograph from Powell Survey    
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See Ancient Puebloan ruins in other parks:
Aztec Ruins NHP
Chaco Culture NHP
El Morro NP
Grand Canyon NP
Hovenweep NM
Mesa Verde NP
Navajo NM
Walnut Canyon NM
Wupatki NM


Click here to learn more about Canyon de Chelly National Park (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/cach).

Click here to learn more about the sedimentary rock formations exposed in Canyon de Chelly National Park.

Selected resources include:

National Park Service, Geologic Resources Division, 2007, Geologic Resource Evaluation Scoping Summary
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, New Mexico, 14 p.
http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/publications/s_summaries/CACH_GRE_scoping_summary_2007-0621.pdf
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This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects. Photgraphy on this website was taken in the summer 2005 and after an early spring snowfall in 2007.

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Last modified Mon 1/19/2011