Krishna Shrine is a 6,131-foot-elevation summit located in the eastern

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 of northern Arizona, US. The landform is attached at the southwest to the Vishnu Temple massif, about 1.0 mi distant. Krishna Shrine is about 3.0 mi south of the Cape Royal overlook, Walhalla Plateau (southeast Kaibab Plateau, North Rim). A twin landform occupies the southeast of Vishnu Temple, the

Rama Shrine Rama Shrine is a -elevation platform-summit located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States, United States. The Shrine is named for Rama, the Hindu god of chivalry ...

. Krishna Shrine towers about 4,000 ft above the Colorado River, about 2.0 miles south. Both Shrines, east and west, and Vishnu Temple, center, are at the headwater drainage of Asbestos Canyon. At the southwest of Krishna, on an extending arm of Redwall Limestone is a short unnamed drainage; (at the southwest is

Newberry Butte Newberry Butte is a summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States, US. It is situated 4.5 miles north of the South Rim's Grandview Point, three miles southwe ...

at the Colorado River, and Granite Gorge). The west flank of Krishna Shrine drains into the long southwest-trending Vishnu Canyon and Creek, which comes from Freya Castle and the Walhalla Plateau, South Rim. Like Rama Shrine (at east), Krishna Shrine is composed of the same geology units: a massif of 4-unit

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 ...

, upon the platform of the

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 ...

(and platform-former) Redwall Limestone. The upper surface of the landform is triangle-shaped-(northwest), and a small eroded peak-(southeast); the high-point prominence is at the northwest and is a remainder, fractured cliff-peak of the Supai, unit 4, the cliff-forming

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 ...

famous in the

for forming platforms. (The prominence-platform of Rama Shrine is an extensive Esplanade layer (with slope-former debris of soft

Hermit Shale 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 H ...

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Geology

Closeup photos of Krishna Shrine show the interlayering of the red-orange

. The Supai Group is on the upper platform of the Redwall Limestone. At Krishna Shrine, the Redwall Limestone cliffs are stained blackish, not red.

References

External links

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Aerial view – (~platform with two prominences); Krishna Shrine, Mountainzone
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