Grand Canyon #9: Hance Rapid & 5 million years of river-cutting in Granite Gorge 2016-06-02

A Grand Canyon tour is a spectacular and humbling experience as a visitor, with the experience of less than one lifetime, tries to appreciate the magnitude of 5,000,000 years of work on display.

Video time points:
0:01 Leaving Navajo Point
0:35 Turning west on SR 64
2:12 Turnoff to Lipan Point
4:00 Arriving at Lipan Point
4:33 How Lipan Point's "Super Rocks Shape Spectacular Views" plaque
4:47 Canyon-viewing begins
5:00-5:15 Plaque illustrating "Delta Farmers" of Grand Canyon's bottomland
5:15-5:25 View of the aforementioned bottomland (in distance)
6:00 "Rock Bottom" to the west: 5 million years of gorge-cutting history to be seen in the layers of Granite Gorge to the west of this point (Lipan Point)
http://www.allgrandcanyon.com/inner_canyon/granite_gorge.php
7:13 Hance Rapid plaque
https://rrfw.org/riverwire/hance-rapid-undergoes-major-change
8:21-8:35 Birds of Grand Canyon plaque

More information on John Hance (1840-1919), first non-native American residence of Grand Canyon, at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hance

More information on the landmarks on this drive, the Desert View Drive, available at:
https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/desert-view-drive.htm

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