south view of Isis Temple, Grand Canyon, from 2-mi, on Tonto Trail, Tonto Platform uppermost vertical red cliff of Esplanade Sandstone (the lower large red vertical cliff is Redwall Limestone upon a lower shelf-cliff of grayish vertical Muav Limestone)
Type
Geological formation
Underlies
Hermit Formation – (Permian), Grand Canyon; (Hermit elsewhere in Arizona: (west) – Oak Creek Canyon region, Sedona, AZ (townsite))
Overlies
Wescogame Formation, (3rd member) – Supai Group
Thickness
330 feet (100 m) approximate maximum[1]
Lithology
Primary
sandstone
Location
Region
(southwest) Colorado Plateau Northern Arizona, Grand Canyon, basement rocks of Verde Valley, Arizona, & extreme southwest Utah
Extent
Grand Canyon
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 the Toroweap Fault, down-dropped to west, southeast of Toroweap Overlook (North Rim, at Lava Falls), and west of Havasupai. The red, sandstone shelf, The Esplanade is about 20-mi long. At Toroweap Overlook region, Toroweap Valley with Vulcan's Throne, Uinkaret volcanic field, the resistant Esplanade Sandstone is described in access routes exploring the Toroweap Lake area (Hike 17, Vulcans Throne).[2]
The Esplanade Route–(trail), of the east Grand Canyon is also named for the Esplanade Sandstone. The coeval sandstone geologic unit from eastern Utah is the Cedar Mesa Sandstone.[3]
^Blakey, Ranney, 2008. Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau, p. xviii.
The Lower Permian EsplanadeSandstone is a cliff-forming, resistant sandstone, dark red, geologic unit found in the Grand Canyon. The rock unit forms...
Wescogame Formation, and the EsplanadeSandstone. The Watahomigi Formation consists of up to 300 feet (91 m) of red mudstone, sandstone, and tan limestone.: 31 ...
Shale, and sits on a ridgeline-platform of Supai Group unit 4, the EsplanadeSandstone. Tritle Peak is at the headwaters of two major drainages east to...
caprock of the Supai unit 4, Permian, EsplanadeSandstone, protecting the unit 3, erosive slope-former below. The Esplanade (Grand Canyon) is found on the South...
(platform-former) EsplanadeSandstone. (The three platforms of Spencer Terrace, Huxley Terrace, and the Darwin Plateau, are all composed of the EsplanadeSandstone.)...
Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica EsplanadeSandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant...
300-feet-thick, cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon...
Coconino Sandstone is eroded, slope-forming Hermit Shale, upon the uppermost Supai Group 'redbeds' member the cliff-forming, EsplanadeSandstone-(see Tuckup...
farther east. Erosion of this layer formed the broad Esplanade Platform on the resistant EsplanadeSandstone. Further erosion formed a deep side canyon, draining...
EsplanadeSandstone. At the north end of this platform is the butte’s prominence, an extremely fractured remnant, of cliff-former Coconino Sandstone capstone...
the Supai Group – the resistant, cliff-former EsplanadeSandstone. (The sandstone forms The Esplanade in Western Grand Canyon, a horizontal hiking area...
Group (unit 4 of 4), the cliff-former (and platform-former), hard EsplanadeSandstone. Remainder debris of very-shallow slopes of burnt-red Hermit Shale...
("redbeds"), the cliff-former, EsplanadeSandstone. The entire prominence is a much eroded, cliff remainder of the Esplanade, but the four units of the Supai...
cliff-forming EsplanadeSandstone famous in the Grand Canyon for forming platforms. (The prominence-platform of Rama Shrine is an extensive Esplanade layer (with...
which overlays cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone. The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon...
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...
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...
and Coconino Sandstone; also the Hermit Formation and Supai Group; at lower elevations (the EsplanadeSandstone member of The Esplanade, Grand Canyon)...
Canyon: The Pennsylvanian is the Late Carboniferous. Supai Group 4 – EsplanadeSandstone-(Early Permian) 3B – (Pakoon Limestone at west Grand Canyon & Nevada)...
platform-former), EsplanadeSandstone. (Trail guides, (for example from Grand Canyon trip reports,) refer to the trails being on “the Esplanade”); The Esplanade (Grand...
Bat Cave mine Cardenas Basalt Dox Formation Ericameria arizonica EsplanadeSandstone Grand Canyon Caverns Grand Canyon Forest Reserve Grand Canyon–Parashant...
from Toroweap Point-(Toroweap Overlook), to 150 Mile Canyon on the EsplanadeSandstone member of the Supai formation. It originated as a cattle trail and...
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