Английская Википедия:Escalante Butte

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Escalante Butte is a Шаблон:Convert prominence adjacent the far eastern South Rim of the Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. Adjacent east is a lower elevation butte, Cardenas Butte. Both buttes, (and the South Rim), are part of the western drainage of north-trending Tanner Canyon into the Colorado River.

Geology – Escalante & Cardenas Buttes

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Escalante Butte, Prominence and rock units:
Coconino Sandstone-prominence,
Hermit Formation,
Supai Group (4-units),
Redwall Limestone,
Muav Limestone,
Bright Angel Shale.
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Cardenas Butte – (left) on ridgeline

Escalante Butte and Cardenas Butte lie upon the same Supai Group ridgeline. At the west, Escalante is separated by a ridge saddle (the drainage southeast into Upper Tanner Canyon). Escalante Butte prominence is a small, heavily eroded cliff and debris remainder of Coconino Sandstone, (on debris of Hermit Shale), on eroded ridges of the Supai Group. Cardenas Butte, is about Шаблон:Convert lower, Шаблон:Convert east, on an eroded ridgeline of Supai Group. Its small spire is a surviving cliff-former unit of the Supai Group.

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