Английская Википедия:Diana Temple (Grand Canyon)

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Diana Temple is a Шаблон:Convert summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, US.[1] It is situated nine miles northwest of Grand Canyon Village, and immediately northeast of Mescalero Point. Pollux Temple is one mile northwest, Marsh Butte one mile east-northeast, and Vesta Temple is one mile south. Topographic relief is significant as Diana Temple rises nearly Шаблон:Convert above the Colorado River in less than two miles. Diana Temple is named for Diana, the goddess of the hunt and the moon according to Roman mythology.[2] Clarence Dutton began the practice of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.[3] The U.S. Geological Survey applied the name, and this geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1908 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[1] In the early 1900s this mesa was sometimes called "No Mans Land".[1] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Diana Temple is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.[4]

Geology

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Diana Temple, east aspect from the air

The forested top of Diana Temple is composed of Permian Kaibab Limestone overlaying cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone.[5] The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is reddish, slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group.[6] Further down are strata of the conspicuous cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone, the Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally granite of the Paleoproterozoic Vishnu Basement Rocks at river level in Granite Gorge. Precipitation runoff from Diana Temple drains east to the Colorado River via Slate Creek on the north side of the mesa, and Topaz Canyon on the south side.

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Diana Temple, with Marsh Butte centered below

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References

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег <ref>; для сносок gnis не указан текст
  2. ↑ N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, page 78.
  3. ↑ Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151.
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  5. ↑ N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917.
  6. ↑ William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, Шаблон:ISBN.
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