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Horus Temple
Tower of Set, Grand Canyon.jpg
Tower of Set prominence (center)
Horus Temple prominence (upper right), with white-Coconino Sandstone capstone, on eroded slopes of Hermit Formation
Highest point
Elevation 6,150 ft (1,870 m)
Prominence 610 ft (190 m)
Isolation 0.73 mi (1.17 km)
Parent peak Osiris Temple
Naming
Etymology Horus
Geography
Horus.Temple is located in Arizona
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Location in Arizona
Horus.Temple is located in the United States
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Location in the United States
Location Grand Canyon
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent range Kaibab Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Geology
Type of rock (caprock-debris cliff)-Coconino Sandstone,
on slopes of Hermit Formation (shale) debris,
upon platform of resistant cliff-former Esplanade Sandstone
and
Coconino Sandstone-caprock,
Hermit Formation,
Esplanade Sandstone-platform-(Supai Group, unit 4 of 4),
Supai Group,
Redwall Limestone,
Muav Limestone,
Bright Angel Shale, Tapeats Sandstone

Horus Temple is a 6,150 ft elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, USA. This butte is situated as the central landform in a 3-series line of peaks southwest of the Shiva Temple (forested)-tableland prominence.

Geology

The top of Horus Temple is a flat ~north-south platform composed of the reddish Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group. The 4th unit and uppermost unit of the Supai Group is the extremely resistant Esplanade Sandstone. At the north end of this platform is the butte’s prominence, an extremely fractured remnant, of cliff-former Coconino Sandstone capstone, upon a small slope of slope-forming, deep brown-red Hermit Formation.

The Supai Group sits on the resistant cliff-forming, typically massive Redwall Limestone, (as in the connected Tower of Set southwards). The base of the Redwall has a short, but resistant cliff of (3rd-unit) Muav Limestone. Below the Muav are units 2 and 1 of the 3-unit Tonto Group, the colorful dull-greenish Bright Angel Shale, and dp-brown Tapeats Sandstone.

Gallery

  • Grand Canyon, Horus Temple, aerial view

    Horus Temple, aerial view from west

  • Tower of Set

    (Viewed from southeast)
    Tower of Set peak-(center)
    Horus Temple prominence-(extreme left)
    Shiva Temple (Grand Canyon), forested tableland summit on the left horizon
    (photo note: Tower of Set, has the 2 closer prominences)

  • Osiris Temple and Horus Temple

    Osiris Temple left, and Horus Temple right. Aerial view from west.

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