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Mescalero Point

Mescalero Point is a -cliff-elevation point located in the central, (to beginning western), Grand Canyon, Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. Mescalero Point is 3.6&nbsp;miles from its closest highest scenic viewpoint, Yuma Point (6,654&nbsp;ft), located east at Eremita Mesa, at the northeast, overlooking Central Hermit Canyon. (Hermit Canyon, with the Hermit Trail is located at the west terminus of West Rim Drive.) <br /><br />Mescalero Point is in a region of points, at the headwaters of canyons, and landforms below the South Rim. Jicarilla Point lies ~1.0&nbsp;mile west-northwest, and Mimbreno Point lies ~0.7&nbsp;miles southeast. <br /><br />Mescalero Point is distinctive because it has separated from the water divide between two canyons, by flat and forested, Diana Temple, which is narrow and linear, about a mile long. A saddle, about 0.1&nbsp;mi long separates Mescalero Point from Diana Temple. Mescalero Point is at the headwaters of Slate Canyon, northwest, and Topaz Canyon, southeast.

Geology

Mescalero Point is composed of horizontally-layered cliff-former Kaibab Limestone, and is mostly buff, or tan-white. The cliffs of Kaibab Limestone sit upon Toroweap Formation slopes, upon buff-white cliffs of Coconino Sandstone. Below are slopes of burnt-red Hermit Shale upon the red-orange Supai Group, which sit on upper platforms of the cliffs of Redwall Limestone. The Redwall sits on units of the Cambrian Tonto Group.

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