las vegas & grand canyon july 13-18, 2006
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Las Vegas & Grand Canyon July 13-18, 2006. Joe and Mary Jane Naumann PowerPoint #3 Lake Mead & Hoover Dam part 2. Hoover Dam – We drove across it. USGS Photo. Hoover Dam from Black Canyon. USGS Photo. Whole Hoover Dam Complex Seen from Black Canyon. USGS Photo. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Las Vegas & Grand CanyonJuly 13-18, 2006
Joe and Mary Jane NaumannPowerPoint #3
Lake Mead & Hoover Dam part 2
Hoover Dam – We drove across it.
USGS Photo
Hoover Dam from Black Canyon
USGS Photo
Whole Hoover Dam Complex Seen from Black Canyon
USGS Photo
View from behind the dam to the far left.
Back of the dam from the parking area – view to the left.
Back of the dam – view to the right.
Closer look at the Nevada side.
USGS Photo
Looking down from the top of the dam.
USGS Photo
Photo from Will on Yahoo 360
Black Canyon below the dam
Black Canyon noncomformity – arrows show direction of strata.
USGS Photo
Lake Mead filling Black Canyon behind the Hoover Dam.
Parking area above the dam
Traffic on top of the dam
Hoover Dam memorial
Passing the Memorial on the way back to Las Vegas
Art deco sculptures at the memorial
Photo from Will on Yahoo 360
Photos from Will on Yahoo 360
Photo from Will on Yahoo 360
Redsandstone on the way back
USGS Photo
Cross-bedded Red Sandstone
USGS Photo
Gypsum Wash
USGS Photo
We stopped at Walgreens on Lake Mead Blvd. on the way back.