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Click here to start a tour of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. 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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| Hoover Dam | Nevada side of Hoover Dam | Hoover Dam | ||
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| Hoover Dam Memorial | Black Canyon below dam | Black Canyon below dam | ||
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| Hoover Dam in Black Canyon | Hoover Dam in Black Canyon | Black Canyon | ||
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| Falls in Black Canyon | Black Canyon (Sugarloaf Mtn.) | Hot Creek in Black Canyon | ||
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| Falls in Hot Creek | Ducks in Black Canyon | Black Canyon | ||
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| Black Canyon nonconformity | Willow Beach Marina | Aplite dikes at Willow Beach | ||
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| Willow Beach Marina | Black Canyon | Narrows in Black Canyon | ||
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| Squaw Peaks | Mouth of Black Canyon | Terraces in Black Canyon | ||
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| Lakeview Overlook | Las Vegas Boat Harbor | Boulder Basin | ||
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| Promontory Point | Sunset Point | Lakeshore with Lava Butte | ||
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| Lakeshore with Lava Butte | Lakeshore Scenic Drive | Lava Butte | ||
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| Las Vegas Wash | Gypsum Wash | Gypsum Wash | ||
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| Angular unconformity | Gypsum in Gypsum Wash | Gypsum diapir | ||
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| Northshore Road | Gale Hills | Gale Hills | ||
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| Gale Hills | Gale Hills | Anticline of Gale Hills | ||
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| Out for a ride | Bowl of Fire | |||
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| Talus cones | Bowl of Fire | Bowl of Fire | ||
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| Bowl of Fire | Bowl of Fire | Muddy Mountains | ||
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| Redstone | Redstone | Redstone | ||
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| Redstone | Redstone | Redstone | ||
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| Redstone | Redstone | Redstone | ||
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| East Longwall Ridge | Echo Wash Valley | Canyon in Muddy Mountains | ||
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| Rogers Spring | Rogers Spring | Rogers Spring | ||
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| Rogers Spring | Blue Point Spring | Badlands near Overton Beach | ||
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| Overton Beach | Overton Arm | Black Ridge | ||
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| Overton Entrance | Black Canyon | Meadview Overlook | ||
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| Meadview Overlook | Meadview Overlook | Joshua Tree | ||
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| Joshua Tree | Road to South Cove | Butte near South Cove | ||
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| Canyon near South Cove | Terraces near South Cove | Mountains near South Cove | ||
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| South Cove | Dipping strata | Gregg Basin at South Cove | ||
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| Mountain near Pearce Ferry | Mountain near Pearce Ferry | Pearce Ferry | ||
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| Pearce Ferry | Badlands near Pearce Ferry | Davis Dam and Lake Mohave | ||
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| Davis Dam | Newberry Mountains | Katherine Mine tailings | ||
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| Davis Dam | Davis Dam | Road to Grapevine Canyon | ||
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| Grapevine Canyon | Grapevine Canyon | Weathering granite | ||
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| Newberry Mountains | Newberry Mountains | Juniper | ||
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| Newberry Mountains | Granite in Newberry Mountains | Newberry Mountains | ||
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| Newberry Mountains | Newberry Mountains | Chollas near Cottonwood Cove | ||
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| Cottonwood Cove chollas | Cottonwood Cove chollas | Black Peak with chollas | ||
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| Cottonwood Basin | Along Cottonwood Cove Road | Mine along road | ||
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| Gated mine entrance | Eldorado Canyon near Nelson | Eldorado Mountains | ||
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| Basaltic dike | Mine tailings near Nelson | Chollas and Eldorado Mountains | ||
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| Eldorado Canyon | Eldorado Mountains | Eldorado Canyon Wash | ||
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| Lake Mohave in Black Canyon | Lake Mohave | Lake Mohave in Black Canyon |
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Click here to see more geology tours of National Parks. |
| Click here to learn more about Lake Mead National Recreation Area (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/lame). Click here to see a generalized geologic map of Lake Mead National Recreation Area. |
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This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3D visual effects. Photography on this website was taken in 2005 and 2006. |
| This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/lame/> Last modified 9/22/2010 |
