Grand Canyon
36.11°N, 112.11°W · Arizona, United States
The Grand Canyon is a mile-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River through Arizona, exposing nearly two billion years of rock.
- Coordinates
- 36.11°N, 112.11°W
- Region
- Arizona
- Country
- United States
About this Grand Canyon poster
This poster renders the terrain around Grand Canyon, United States as a stack of ridgelines — a topographic “joy plot” inspired by the famous Unknown Pleasures album cover. Each line traces the real elevation profile of one slice of the landscape, drawn from digital elevation data, so the peaks, valleys and ridges you see are the actual shape of the ground.
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