Las Vegas & Grand Canyon
July 13-18, 2006
Joe and Mary Jane Naumann
PowerPoint #5
Deluxe Grand Canyon Tour
North Las Vegas Airport
Scenic Airlines at North Las Vegas
Airport
Internet Photos
Ready to board the airplane
Taking off at sunrise
Looking down on North Las Vegas
Beautiful Sky
The sun peeks through
See what water can do in a desert.
Interstate highway below
Awesome
landscape
at sunrise.
Lake Mead on the left side
Great view from the right side too
Sunrise on Lake Mead
What about the ring around the lake?
The average level of the lake today is
quite a few feet lower than is had
been for years. Why?
For several years there has been below
normal snowfall in the mountains.
Fast growing cities like Las Vegas are
using more water.
Capillary action and evaporation have
dried-out rock strata that had been
saturated, leaving dissolved mineral salt
residues along the shoreline.
First glimpse of the Hoover Dam
The dam is more visible
Almost a full view of the dam
Frontal shot with lens flare effect
Probably the best shot of the dam
installations.
We’re
about to
leave the
Hoover
Dam
behind us.
Good morning sunshine!
Lake Mead east of the dam
Beautifully outlined ridge and
escarpments
The Colorado R. – ridges, talus
slopes, escarpments, & terraces
Tributary stream in a side canyon
Flying over the Grand Canyon
Plateau Surface
Escarpment
Alluvial Fans
Talus Slope
A tributary
joins the
Colorado
River
Checking the other side of the
airplane again
Plateau covered with Ponderosa
and Pinyon pines
Vast, empty, dissected plateau
surface
Lonely, isolated ranch
A slightly
closer look
at the
ranch. Do
you notice
the slight
curvature
of the
horizon?
Grand Canyon National Park Airport
Internet Photo
Deplaning at the park airport