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The Isis Temple prominence (a short remainder caprock of bright-white Coconino Sandstone, on an erosion slope of brownish Hermit Formation), is only about 202 ft (62 m) lower than Grand Canyon Village, the main public center on Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Isis Temple is about 5 mi (8.0 km) directly north of Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim ...
Shiva Temple is a 7,646-foot-elevation (2,331-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US. [4] It is situated six miles north of Hopi Point overlook of the canyon's South Rim, about 2.5 miles southwest of North Rim's Tiyo Point, and two miles northwest of Isis Temple, where it towers 5,200 feet (1,600 meters) above the Colorado River.
The Grand Canyon Supergroup is a Mesoproterozoic to a Neoproterozoic sequence of sedimentary strata, ... Grand Canyon. Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid on a fault-block ...
The Lower Permian Esplanade Sandstone is a cliff-forming, resistant sandstone, dark red, geologic unit found in the Grand Canyon.The rock unit forms a resistant shelf in the west Grand Canyon, south side of the Colorado River, at the east of the Toroweap Fault, down-dropped to west, southeast of Toroweap Overlook (North Rim, at Lava Falls), and west of Havasupai.
Entire four-member sequence, Isis Temple, Grand Canyon. The geologic sequences of the coeval Supai and Hermosa Groups. [2]: 54 Supai Group. 4 – Esplanade Sandstone; 3 – Wescogame Formation; 2 – Manakacha Formation; 1 – Watahomigi Formation; Hermosa Group, named for Hermosa Cliffs, north of Durango, Colorado [2]: 54 3 – Honaker Trail ...
Isis Temple-Cheops Pyramid is a small horst, located close to the geographic center of the Grand Canyon. It is bordered on the east by the Bright Angel Fault and on the south by Granite Gorge; the Bright Angel Fault continues to the south-southwest across Granite Gorge and up Garden Creek, up the Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.
The siltstone beds often contain poorly preserved plant fossils. The Hermit Formation varies in thickness from about 100 feet (30 m) in the eastern part of the Grand Canyon region to about 900 feet (270 m) in the region of Toroweap and Shivwits Plateaus. In the Sedona, Arizona area, it averages 300 feet (91 m) in thickness. The upper contact of ...
Cheops Pyramid (prominence), Grand Canyon (Isis Temple region, Bright Angel Canyon) The Bass Formation, also known as the Bass Limestone, is a Mesoproterozoic rock formation that outcrops in the eastern Grand Canyon, Coconino County, Arizona. The Bass Formation erodes as either cliffs or stair-stepped cliffs.