List of Supai Group prominences in the Grand Canyon

This is a list of Supai Group prominences in the Grand Canyon. Landforms with up to 4 units of Supai Group, as prominences.

The rock unit sequences are as follows:

• Coconino Sandstone, (prominence, Permian unit)
• Hermit Shale, Permian
• Supai Group, (4 units, Pennsylvanian-Permian)
• 4 – Esplanade Sandstone, (Permian)<br>(Typically forms a resistant (& thick) cliff, thickening in Western Grand Canyon)
• 3 – Wescogame Formation
• 2 – Manakacha Formation, (a resistant cliff-former; can make cliffs, or cliffs, with a platform on prominence)
• 1 – Watahomigi Formation
• (localized-Surprise Canyon Formation)
• Redwall Limestone-cliff-former (and platform-former)

Supai Group (4 units)

Supai Group, Esplanade Sandstone (unit 4)

Supai Group, Manakacha Formation

Supai Group, Watahomigi Formation

Coconino Sandstone cliffs on Supai (#4)-Esplanade Sandstone platform

The cliff-former (and a platform-former) Esplanade Sandstone supports cliffs of Coconino Sandstone, the cliffs being on slope-former Hermit Shale, then the Esplanade Sandstone platform.

• Angels Gate
• Brady Peak
• Jupiter Temple

• Mount Hayden
• Siegfried Pyre
• Tritle Peak

Alphabetical listing

• Cardenas Butte
• Dana Butte
• Geikie Peak
• Scorpion Ridge

• The Howlands Butte
• Thor Temple
• Whites Butte

See also

• Geology of the Grand Canyon area

References