ANCIENT LANDSCAPES OF THE GRAND CANYON REGION. by Edwin D. McKee.
The geological story of Zion, Bryce, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, and Grand Canyon. Details events in geologic periods from the earth's oldest rocks in the Grand Canyon through the formation of mountains, early climates, oldest known life and the first animal life, the age of fish, deposits of sedimentary rocks that make up so much of the landscapes of this area. Includes fossil trees, dinosaur tracks, and the "frozen" sand dunes of massive cliffs plus arches and bridges. Concludes with the erosive origins of features including cutting of canyons, glaciers, volcanic eruptions, and recent but now extinct animals, ending with the advent of man. Photographs, drawings, charts, and maps, bibliography, 52 pages.
ISBN: None. 1972. Order #: NOLA1008 paper$4.95.

 

 

BRYCE CANYON AND ZION NATIONAL PARKS--a photographic and comprehensive guide. by Michael D. Yandell.
History, geology, hiking, motoring. Tells how the cliffs, spires, and textures were eroded from massive rock to create their forms, tells of man's use of the land and the coming of a new civilization, then provides a motorist's view of each of the parks; features, explaining the individual characters of features seen from the roads. Tells of the hiking trails. Color photos, maps, 64 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1972.Order #:  WOWI1811 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

BRYCE CANYON: A Wish You Were Here Postcard Book (UT).
15 postcards each portray individual scenes of this national park in Utah--its unusual eroded cliff-breaks, spires, castles, arches, tunnels, and hoodoos. Interpretive information describes the features and explains how they were formed--with plenty of room for entering your own notes and send-to address. In book format, color photographs..
ISBN: 0-939365-06-5. Order #: SIER5275 paper$4.95.

BRYCE CANYON: the story behind the scenery. Bezy.
Colorful eroded columns, spires, and arches--how they formed, plus history, plants and wildlife, scenery. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-916122-69-7. 1981. Second printing. Order #: KCPU4619 paper$8.95.

 

 

BRYCE CANYON IN PICTURES: the continuing story (UT). Colclazer.
Extended captions with full color photographs explain the origin of the landscape features of this Utah national park. Includes wildlife, history. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-88714-032-7. 1989 First printing.  Order #: KCPU4723 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

CANONS GRANDE: visions of the Grand Staircase. by Lynn Wilson, Jim Wilson, & Jeff Nicholas.
Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion National Parks--famous landmarks to subtle details are presented as a celebration of this landscape in all its moods. The staircase is a region of Utah and Arizona in which the landscape steps in broad levels due to underlying geologic factors, exposing at the Earth surface varying rock types that themselves give rise to unusual scenic formations. Chart showing interrelationships of geologic formation in the steps separately bearing Grand Canyon, Zion, and Bryce. Nearly 100 color photographs, 96 pages.
ISBN: 0-939365-09-X. Order #: SIER1281 paper$12.95.

LIVING COLOR: wildflower communities of Bryce Canyon & Cedar Breaks. by Hayle Buchanan.
Organizes the plants of these two National Park System areas in Utah into habitat groups and describes their appearances--size, color, stem and leaf characteristics--to help identify them and thereby get to know their stories. Plants may be on the breaks, in the ponderosa pine forests, on high plateau sagebrush, in fir-spruce-aspen forest, growing in subalpine open semi-moist meadows, or in subalpine marsh meadows. Another type of area is timberline forest, and there is even alpine tundra in one locality. Index of species and references. Drawings and color photographs. 66 pages.
ISBN: None. 1979. Order #: BRCA6355 paper$6.95.

 

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