Geology of National Parks

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

A Photographic Geology Tour of Lower Glen Canyon

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Click here to start a tour of the Glen Canyon below the high dam at Page, Arizona. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages. Or, see a thumbnail gallery.

Map of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of park images.

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Click on images for a larger view.
Lake Powell
Castle Rock		 Lake Powell
Lake Powell		 Lake Powell
Dominguez Butte		 Lake Powell
South Shore Buttes
Lake Powell
Padre Buttes		 Lake Powell
Padre Buttes		 Lake Powell
Navaho Mountain in Distance		 Lake Powell
Lake Powell
Lake Powell
Gregory Butte		 Lake Powell
Navajo Mountain in distance		 Lake Powell
Tower & Wildhorse Buttes		 Lake Powell
Stone Castles
Lake Powell
Stone Castles		 Lake Powell
Ripple bedded sandstone		 Lake Powell
Dinosaur track		 Lake Powell
Dinosaur tracks
Lake Powell
Wahweap Overlook view		 Lake Powell
Wahweap Overlook view		 Lake Powell
Glen Canyon Dam		 Lake Powell
Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon below Glen Canyon Dam

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Glen Canyon Dam Seeps below the dam Glen Canyon below the dam Seeps below the dam
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Talus cones in Glen Canyon Dry waterfall in Glen Canyon Petroglyphs in Glen Canyon Petroglyphs in Glen Canyon
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Petroglyphs in Glen Canyon Glen Canyon Sandstone in Glen Canyon River beach in Glen Canyon
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High cliffs in Glen Canyon Cliffside arch in Glen Canyon Sand field on mountainside Sand field on mountainside
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Side canyon in Glen Canyon Side canyon in Glen Canyon Approaching Lees Ferry Lees Ferry

Click here to see other prehistoric American Indian cultural heritage parks in the Four Corners region.

Click here to learn more about Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/glca).

See also adjacent parks including Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Capitol Reef National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, and Grand Staircase-Escalante Canyons National Monument.

Click here to see historic stereo photography taken by the photographers of the John Wesley Powell Survey of 1871-1872.

Click here to learn more about the sedimentary rock formations exposed in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
3D glasses

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. Photography on this website was taken in 2004 (below dam) and 2009 (above dam).


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Last modified 4/16/2024