Sentences with phrase «rock canyon walls»

Hoover Dam is a spectacular sight from the air, curved between the rock canyon walls.

GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Like many places across the West, Lake Powell seems impossibly large, mythical almost, with its rich red rock canyon walls standing in dramatic juxtaposition to the expanse of cerulean below that seems to stretch on forever.

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In addition, by directly deploying the vehicles into the depths of the canyon, the team were able to map and image steep and overhanging rock walls that hosted extensive coral communities; these habitats were previously overlooked using conventional (downward - looking) ship - based instruments.

Risks can be minimized, but some birdmen fly within an arm's length of rock and canyon walls and just a few feet above the trees in what's known as proximity flying.

The Evidence: The rocks exposed in the canyon walls could not have settled during a single flood because they alternate many times in color, grain size, and composition.

The harrowing true story of James Franco, a rock climber whose arm was pinned to a Utah canyon wall by a boulder.

Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock.

But on April 26, 2003, he nearly met his end in Blue John Canyon, Utah while rock climbing all alone when a boulder dislodged and crushed his right hand pinning him to the canyon wall.

A few years ago, I saw my first photos of Antelope Canyon, with its glowing, red canyon walls, twisted, scalloped rock faces, and beams of light shining through the dusty air.

They include steep - walled canyons, inland valleys, large and small washes, isolated rock outcrops, and panoramic expanses of desert.

If you do visit Havasu Falls be sure to continue your hike down the canyon to Mooney Falls where you must climb through tunnels blasted into the steep rock walls and scramble down slippery metal ladders to reach the base of the falls.

Also to be seen are coral encrusted rock formations with interesting sponge structures, sea fans and tunicates.The north side is the deepest at 80 ft and the most fun, as you're swimming through a canyon with almost totally vertical walls.

Golden, British Columbia — based Glacier Raft Company has exclusive access to raft the Kicking Horse River's legendary lower canyon, a 2.5 - mile stretch of Class IV rapids with massively steep rock walls on either side.

In Gordale Scar we are confronted with a vast rock wall, interrupted only at the upper right corner by a long view into a canyon; in For Cookham Read Holt we are presented, without explanation, the severed boughs of a magnolia tree suspended by white thread above a grassy lawn.

Artist Statement «Utah?s 1st National Monument?s name, natural bridge, is formed through erosion by water flowing in the bed of the canyon and gravity helping to collapse rock walls until the...