Welcome to Marble canyon

By: Nevaeh Morales

This is were it is located

• Marble canyon is located in northern Arizona.

This is marble canyon

Types of rock in marble canyon

this is fairy tale (located in marble canyon)

Facts!

• The average depth of the canyon is only about 1 mile.

• the width of marble canyon is about 600 yards long.

• On June 30, 1956, two planes flying from Los Angeles to Chicago, a United Airlines DC-7 and a TWA Constellation, had both requested permission to fly into the Grand Canyon's airspace. The planes collided directly over the canyon, killing everyone on board.

Beautiful view of marble canyon

More facts!

• One snake has an unusual pink hue that matches the local rocks. It lives in marble canyon.

• Marble Canyon is the section of the Colorado River canyon in northern Arizona from Lee's Ferry to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, which marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon.

Death valley (in marble canyon)

How marble canyon looks around this time of the year

Some more facts!

• The name Marble Canyon is a misnomer because there is no marble there. Although Powell knew this when he named the canyon, he thought the polished limestone looked like marble.

• Sometimes the rocks are of many colors - white, gray, pink, and purple, with saffron tints.

• General Powell is the person who named the canyon.

Mountain goat

• The mountain goat is one of the many animals found in marble canyon

How was it formed?

• It was formed pretty much by nature be cause every time it would rain the canyon would gust get deeper and deeper pretty much every time it rained.

• That is pretty much how marble canyon was formed

• At first it was just a boring old “plate” of sand

Bibliography

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Canyon

• http://www.livescience.com

• www.google.com