Original.Impressionistic. Acrylic on gallery wrap cotton canvas. The edges are painted a grey, used within the picture. The piece is encompassed by a brushed nickle floating frame, after being coated in resin, to give it a 3D look. It's truly a stunning piece to fit anywher in a home! Framing is possible, if the buyer wishes. The Little Colorado River Gorge is within the Tribal Park, in the Navajo Nation. The Little Colorado River Gorge is the gateway to the Grand Canyon. The water is a blue/turquoise because of the water at the Blue Springs tumbes out fo the ground to create that beautiful color because of the calcium carbonate that is suspended within the water. It then flows into the brown Colorado River, to create a deep blue hue.
Little Colorado River
The Little Colorado River (Hopi: Paayu) is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. state of Arizona,[2] providing the principal drainage from the Painted Desert region. Together with its major tributary, the Puerco River, it drains an area of about 26,500 square miles (69,000 km2) in eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. Although it stretches almost 340 miles (550 km),[1] only the headwaters and the lowermost reaches flow year-round. Between St. Johns and Cameron, most of the river is a wide, braided wash, only containing water after heavy snowmelt or flash flooding.
The lower 57.2 miles (92.1 km) is known as the Little Colorado River Gorge[3] and forms one of the largest arms of the Grand Canyon, at over 3,000 feet (910 m) deep where it joins the Colorado near Desert View in Grand Canyon National Park. An overlook of the gorge is a Navajo Nation Tribal Park.
The river rises as two forks in the White Mountains of mid-eastern Arizona, in Apache County. The West Fork starts in a valley on the north flank of Mount Baldy at an elevation of nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m), while the East Fork starts nearby. The forks meet in a canyon near the town of Greer, forming the main Little Colorado River. It flows into River Reservoir, then leaves the canyon near Eagar. The river then turns north, meandering through Richville Valley, before emptying into Lyman Lake, impounded by an irrigation dam built in 1912.[4] From there the river continues north, past the town of St. Johns. Shortly afterwards, the river transforms from a perennial stream to an ephemeral wash as it travels northwestwards through Hunt Valley, where it receives the Zuni River, then receiving Silver Creek and the Puerco River—its main tributaries—near the town of Holbrook as it flows into the Painted Desert.[5]
The Little Colorado River gets its blue color from dissolved calcium carbonate in the water. This mineral is found in chalk, antacids, eggshells, dark green vegetables, rocks, and more. In the Little Colorado River, calcium carbonate forms a type of limestone called travertine that creates white, pillowy deposits along the riverbed.
