The Lower Permian Esplanade Sandstone is a cliff-forming, resistant sandstone, dark red, geologic unit found in the Grand Canyon. The rock unit forms...
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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...
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List of Supai Group prominences in the Grand Canyon (section Coconino Sandstone cliffs on Supai (#4)-Esplanade Sandstone platform)
Coconino Sandstone, (prominence, Permian unit) Hermit Shale, Permian Supai Group, (4 units, Pennsylvanian-Permian) 4 – Esplanade Sandstone, (Permian)...
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Supai Group (section Esplanade Sandstone)
Wescogame Formation, and the Esplanade Sandstone. The Watahomigi Formation consists of up to 300 feet (91 m) of red mudstone, sandstone, and tan limestone.: 31 ...
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(platform-former) Esplanade Sandstone. (The three platforms of Spencer Terrace, Huxley Terrace, and the Darwin Plateau, are all composed of the Esplanade Sandstone.)...
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caprock of the Supai unit 4, Permian, Esplanade Sandstone, protecting the unit 3, erosive slope-former below. The Esplanade (Grand Canyon) is found on the South...
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Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica Esplanade Sandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant...
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Look up esplanade in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Esplanade most commonly refers to a raised walkway. Esplanade or The Esplanade may also refer to:...
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Esplanade Sandstone. At the north end of this platform is the butte’s prominence, an extremely fractured remnant, of cliff-former Coconino Sandstone capstone...
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the Supai Group – the resistant, cliff-former Esplanade Sandstone. (The sandstone forms The Esplanade in Western Grand Canyon, a horizontal hiking area...
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cliff-forming Esplanade Sandstone famous in the Grand Canyon for forming platforms. (The prominence-platform of Rama Shrine is an extensive Esplanade layer (with...
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Group (unit 4 of 4), the cliff-former (and platform-former), hard Esplanade Sandstone. Remainder debris of very-shallow slopes of burnt-red Hermit Shale...
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Coconino Sandstone is eroded, slope-forming Hermit Shale, upon the uppermost Supai Group 'redbeds' member the cliff-forming, Esplanade Sandstone-(see Tuckup...
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upper platform (shelf) of the Supai Group, the highly resistant Esplanade Sandstone. The curved tail of The Alligator is the bottom platform, sitting...
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Vishnu Temple (Grand Canyon) (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone with a Kaibab Limestone cupola caprock. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata...
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4-Kaibab Limestone 3-Toroweap Formation 2-Coconino Sandstone 1B-Hermit Formation 1A-Esplanade Sandstone (also considered upper unit of Supai Group, Pennsylvanian-Permian...
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("redbeds"), the cliff-former, Esplanade Sandstone. The entire prominence is a much eroded, cliff remainder of the Esplanade, but the four units of the Supai...
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of Freya Castle is composed of cream-colored Permian Coconino Sandstone. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon...
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farther east. Erosion of this layer formed the broad Esplanade Platform on the resistant Esplanade Sandstone. Further erosion formed a deep side canyon, draining...
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and Coconino Sandstone; also the Hermit Formation and Supai Group; at lower elevations (the Esplanade Sandstone member of The Esplanade, Grand Canyon)...
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300-feet-thick, cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon...
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Shiva Temple (Grand Canyon) (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
overlaying cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone. The conspicuous band of sandstone, which is the third-youngest strata in the Grand Canyon...
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Mount Sinyella (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
erosional remnant composed of Permian Kaibab Limestone and Coconino Sandstone. This sandstone, which is the third-youngest stratum in the Grand Canyon, was...
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from Toroweap Point-(Toroweap Overlook), to 150 Mile Canyon on the Esplanade Sandstone member of the Supai formation. It originated as a cattle trail and...
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approximately 15 degrees, and are topped by the short-cliff, horizontal Tapeats Sandstone (the Tonto Platform, and called the Great Unconformity). "Ochoa Point...
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Limestone overlaying cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon...
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Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica Esplanade Sandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant...
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platform-former), Esplanade Sandstone. (Trail guides, (for example from Grand Canyon trip reports,) refer to the trails being on “the Esplanade”); The Esplanade (Grand...
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Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica Esplanade Sandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant...
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Hotel Esplanade Hotel Esplanade was a luxury hotel with 400 rooms, which once stood on Berlin's busy transport and nightlife hub Potsdamer Platz. During...
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