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Tritle Peak
Tritle Peak is an prominence adjacent Roosevelt Point, on the East Rim of the Walhalla Plateau (East Kaibab Plateau). It is located in far eastern Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. The peak is only about northeast of Roosevelt Point on an eroded ridgeline, and it is a very short caprock remainder of Coconino Sandstone cliffs upon Hermit Formation, Hermit Shale slopes. The entire ridge is a bright dark-burnt-red from the Hermit Shale, and sits on a ridgeline-platform of Supai Group unit 4, the Esplanade Sandstone. Tritle Peak is at the headwaters of two major drainages east to the south-flowing Colorado River, next to the East Rim, Grand Canyon – Upper Nankoweap Creek drainage (north), and Upper Kwagunt Creek drainage (south). Geology (ridgeline of Esplanade Sandstone) In the region adjacent to the East Rim of the Walhalla Plateau (Kaibab Plateau), at rock units of the upper Supai Group, the platforms of the Esplanade Sandstone support various landforms. They are namely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aubrey Peak Wilderness
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona. The wilderness is one of two in the Rawhide Mountains, which border the north bank of the west-flowing Bill Williams River. The other wilderness is on both sides of the river, the Rawhide Mountains Wilderness; the section south of the river is in the northeast of the Buckskin Mountains, and the southeast of the Rawhides. The Buckskin Wilderness is on the western border of Alamo Lake, of Alamo Lake State Park. The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is about northeast of Parker Dam, California on the Colorado River, near its confluence with the Bill Williams. The confluence has the following sites: :# Bill Williams National Wildlife Preserve :# Buckskin Mountain State Park :# Cattail Cove State Park :#Parker Dam Peaks of the wildern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
