Geology of National Parks

Canyonlands National Park

A photo tour featuring park geology

Start a 3D image tour by clicking here. See tour in standard photo images See images in a thumbnail image gallery Return to the Geology of National Parks main page

Click here to start a 3-D tour of the park. You will need 3-D glasses to view this series of anaglyphic images.
Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages.

map of Canyonlands National Park

Map of Canyonlands National Park. Click on the "Next Image" (below) to continue on the image tour, or click on any of the small red dots on the map above to go directly to selected images.

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Schaffer Trail Upheaval Dome White Rim
The Schaffer Trail Upheaval Dome White Rim and Green River
photographer White Rim Green River
Green River Overlook area White Rim Green River - Stillwater Canyon
White Rim White Rim Needles in distance
White Rim - Green River White Rim near Colorado River Needles in distance
La Sal Mountains Grandview Point Needles in distance
La Sal Mountains Grandview Point Needls near The Confluence
Needles in distance Near the Confluence Abajo Mountains
The Needles Colorado River canyons The Abajo Mountains
Colorado River near Potash Plant Balanced Rock
Colorado River Near Potash Balanced Rock
Dead Horse Point Needles Needles
Dead Horse Point The Needles The Needles
Needles Elephant Canyon Needles
The Needles Elephant Canyon Elephant Canyon
Needles Needles Needles
The Needles The Needles The Needles
weathered joints Druid Arch Druid Arch
Joints in creek bed Druid Arch Druid Arch
Near Druid Arch Needles Joint Trail
Near Druid Arch The Needles The Joint Trail
Needles Newspaper Rock Click here to see historic images of the Green River Canyons taken during the John Wesley Powell Survey of 1871 of the Green and Colorado River Canyons.
The Needles Newspaper Rock State Park
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Check out the National Park Service's Canyonlands National Park site - http://www.nps.gov/cany/.

NPS, 2005, Canyonlands National Park: Geologic Resource Evaluation Report: Natural Resource Report NPS/NRPC/GRD/NRR-5005/003: http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/publications/reports/cany_gre_rpt_view.pdf

NPS, 1999, Geologic Resources Inventory Workshop Summary Southeast Utah Group National Park, Utah: http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/inventory/publications/s_summaries/ARCH-CANY-HOVE-NABR_scoping_summary_20040512.pdf

Click here to see information about park stratigraphy and historic geologic reports.

Click here to see Powell Survey (1871) stereo photographs taken in the park area.

This website is an image tour of Canyonlands National Park. All pictures were taken in early June 2003.
The 3D images are anaglyphs and require red and cyan 3-D viewing glasses. The image below is a pair of 3-D (anaglyph) viewing glasses.

3D glasses

A search on the World Wide Web will yield many sites about anaglyphs and where to get 3-D glasses.

This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/cany/>
Last modified Mon 6/30/2010

Potash Boat Launch Dead Horse Point Shafer Trail Upheaval Dome Green River Overlook Buck Canyon Overlook Newspaper Rock The Needles Druid Arch The Joint Trail Chesler Park Elephant Canyon Grand View Point The Maze Click to start tour