Tritle Peak is an prominence adjacent Roosevelt Point, on the East Rim of the

Walhalla Plateau Walhalla is the German form of Old Norse ''Valhöll'', which is commonly anglicised as Valhalla. It may refer to: * Walhalla (memorial), a hall of fame in Donaustauf, Bavaria, Germany. Places Australia * Walhalla, Victoria, Australia * Elec ...

(East Kaibab Plateau). It is located in far 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 ...

, 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 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 ...

slopes. The entire ridge is a bright dark-burnt-red from the Hermit Shale, and sits on a ridgeline-platform of

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 ...

unit 4, the

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 ...

. Tritle Peak is at the headwaters of two major drainages east to the south-flowing

Colorado River The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...

, next to the East Rim, Grand Canyon – Upper Nankoweap Creek drainage (north), and Upper Kwagunt Creek drainage (south).

Geology (ridgeline of
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 ...
)

Grand Canyon panorama with rock formation 3

In the region adjacent to the East Rim of the

( Kaibab Plateau), at rock units of the upper Supai Group, the platforms of the

support various landforms. They are namely - Mount Hayden,

Brady Peak Brady Peak is an -elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States, United States. It is situated northeast of the Vista Encantada viewpoint on the canyon' ...

, and Tritle Peak. The peaks are composed of eroded Coconino Sandstone, upon

, ( slope-formed) slopes, debris-filled or vegetated. Ridgelines with no remaining Coconino Sandstone peaks, will be dk-reddish, or red from the

(with 2 cliff-layers & 2 slope-layers). Numerous ridgelines along the Walhalla Plateau East Rim have shed this Coconino Sandstone. Tritle Peak from Roosevelt Point

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Tritle Peak closeup

View of Roosevelt (and 2 Kaibab Limestone Rim prominences), and view of Tritle Peak below Rim. (Click on photo)
Grand Canyon Landforms of Coconino County, Arizona

Geology (ridgeline of 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 ...)

References

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Geology (ridgeline of
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 ...
)