Merrick Butte is a
butte
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In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and table (landform), tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a F ...
located in
Monument Valley
Monument Valley ( nv, Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, , meaning ''valley of the rocks'') is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, the largest reaching above the valley floor. It is located on the Utah-Arizona ...
[Mitten Buttes Quadrangle, Arizona-Utah, 7.5 Minute Series, US Geological Survey, 1738 ed.] and is part of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, similar to its neighbors
West and East Mitten Buttes
The West and East Mitten Buttes (also known as the Mittens) are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona. When viewed from the south, the buttes appear to be two giant mittens with their thumbs ...
just to the north.
[''Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer,'' De Lorme, 4th ed., 2001, p. 26 ]
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* {{commons category-inline, Merrick Butte
Buttes of Arizona
Landforms of Navajo County, Arizona