Horus Temple is a 6,150 ft elevation summit located in the

Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon (, yuf-x-yav, Wi:kaʼi:la, , Southern Paiute language: Paxa’uipi, ) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a m ...

, in

Coconino County Coconino County is a county in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. Its population was 145,101 at the 2020 census. The county seat is Flagstaff. The county takes its name from ''Cohonino'', a name applied to the Havasupai p ...

of Arizona,

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. This butte is situated as the central landform in a 3-series line of peaks southwest of the Shiva Temple (forested)-tableland prominence.

Geology

The top of Horus Temple is a flat ~north-south platform composed of the reddish

Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian may refer to: * A person or thing from Pennsylvania * Pennsylvanian (geology) The Pennsylvanian ( , also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS geologic timesca ...

- Permian

Supai Group The Supai Group is a slope-forming section of red bed deposits found in the Colorado Plateau. The group was laid down during the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian. Cliff-forming interbeds of sandstone are noticeable throughout the group. The Su ...

.N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917, pp. 12, 37. The 69th unit and uppermost unit of the Supai Group is the extremely resistant

Esplanade Sandstone 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 t ...

. At the north end of this platform is the butte’s prominence, an extremely fractured remnant, of

cliff-former A cliff-former is a geological unit of bedrock that is more resistant to erosion than overlying or underlying strata and consequently produces outcrops with high slope angles. It is more or less equivalent to ''ridge-former'', and may be contrast ...

Coconino Sandstone capstone, upon a small slope of slope-forming, deep brown-red

Hermit Formation The Permian Hermit Formation, also known as the Hermit Shale, is a nonresistant unit that is composed of slope-forming reddish brown siltstone, mudstone, and very fine-grained sandstone. Within the Grand Canyon region, the upper part of the ...

. The Supai Group sits on the resistant cliff-forming, typically massive Redwall Limestone, (as in the connected

Tower of Set Tower of Set is a summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US. This butte is situated four miles north of Hopi Point overlook on the canyon's South Rim, two miles southeast of Tower of Ra, and three miles south-south ...

southwards). The base of the Redwall has a short, but resistant cliff of (3rd-unit)

Muav Limestone The Cambrian Muav Limestone is a geologic unit within the 5-member Tonto Group. It is about thick at its maximum. It is a resistant cliff-forming unit. The Muav consists of dark to light-gray, brown, and orange red limestone with dolomite and ...

. Below the Muav are units 2 and 1 of the 3-unit

Tonto Group The Tonto Group is a name for an assemblage of related sedimentary strata, collectively known by geologists as a ''Group'', that comprises the basal sequence Paleozoic strata exposed in the sides of the Grand Canyon. As currently defined, the T ...

, the colorful dull-greenish Bright Angel Shale, and dp-brown

Tapeats Sandstone Except where underlain by the Sixtymile Formation, Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone is typically the lowest geologic unit, about thick, at its maximum, of the 5-member Tonto Group. It is famous for being the highly-resistant mostly-horizontal unit abo ...

Gallery

File:Grand Canyon, Horus Temple, aerial view.jpg, Horus Temple, aerial view from west File:Tower of Set.jpg, (Viewed from southeast)
Tower of Set peak-(center)
Horus Temple prominence-(extreme left)

Shiva Temple (Grand Canyon) Shiva Temple is a summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of Arizona, Southwestern United States, US. It is situated six miles north of Hopi Point overlook of the canyon's South Rim, about 2.5 miles ...

, forested tableland summit on the left horizon
(photo note: Tower of Set, has the 2 closer prominences) File:Osiris Temple and Horus Temple.jpg, Osiris Temple left, and Horus Temple right. Aerial view from west.

References

{{reflist Colorado Plateau Grand Canyon Grand Canyon National Park Landforms of Coconino County, Arizona Mountains of Arizona Mountains of Coconino County, Arizona