A voyage through scale
The Grand Canyon is 446 km long, up to 29 km wide and attains a depth of over a mile 1,800 meters. 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.
Visiting Grand Canyon is like a voyage through time scale.
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1.1 MB
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1500 px
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1125 px
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4:3
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Panasonic
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DMC-TZ40
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19 mm f/5.3 1/1000 s ISO 100
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8 January 2015
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36.0387, -111.8374
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Grayish reddish orange
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28 February 2015
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Paulina Cwik (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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