Shiva Temple (Grand Canyon)

Coordinates: 36°10′04″N 112°09′49″W / 36.1678508°N 112.1635251°W / 36.1678508; -112.1635251
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Shiva Temple
South aspect, from South Rim
Highest point
Elevation7,646 ft (2,331 m)[1][2]
Prominence1,351 ft (412 m)[1]
Parent peakDragon Head (7,765 ft)[3]
Isolation2.65 mi (4.26 km)[3]
Coordinates36°10′04″N 112°09′49″W / 36.1678508°N 112.1635251°W / 36.1678508; -112.1635251[4]
Geography
Shiva Temple is located in Arizona
Shiva Temple
Shiva Temple
Location in Arizona
Shiva Temple is located in the United States
Shiva Temple
Shiva Temple
Shiva Temple (the United States)
Location
class 4 climbing[3]

Shiva Temple is a 7,646-foot-elevation (2,331-meter) summit located in the

U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[4]

In 1937, the American Museum of Natural History led explorations to Shiva Temple and Wotans Throne in the belief that these buttes, isolated for 100,000 years from the plateau, may have evolved new species. The scientists discovered Ancestral Puebloan dwellings, deer antlers, and an empty Kodak film box that had been left behind a month earlier by pioneer Emery Kolb, his daughter Edith, Ruth Stephens Baker, Gordon Berger, and Ralph White, but no new species.[7][8][9]

According to the

Cold semi-arid climate.[10]

Geology

Shiva Temple strata

The top of Shiva Temple is composed of Permian Kaibab Limestone overlaying cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone.[11] The conspicuous band of sandstone, which is the third-youngest strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is slope-forming, reddish terraces of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group. Further down are strata of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, and finally the Cambrian Tonto Group.[12] Precipitation runoff from Shiva Temple drains south to the Colorado River via Trinity and Crystal Creeks.

Prominence – A plateau/tableland

The tableland plateau of Shiva Temple's prominence is made up of a forest of

Ponderosa Pine; also pines, junipers, shrubs, and cacti.[13] The animals found in the survey expedition of 1937 were chipmunks, cottontail rabbits, pack rats, mice species, and rock squirrels
.

Gallery

  • Aerial view from the west
    Aerial view from the west
  • Shiva Temple (left), Osiris Temple (right)
    Shiva Temple (left), Osiris Temple (right)
  • Shiva Temple centered in the distance, from Powell Point at sunset
    Shiva Temple centered in the distance, from Powell Point at sunset
  • Geologic layers of Shiva Temple
    Geologic layers of Shiva Temple
  • Shiva Temple from southeast at Grandview Point
    Shiva Temple from southeast at Grandview Point
  • Shiva Temple to the right, from Hopi Point
    Shiva Temple to the right, from Hopi Point
  • Shiva Temple centered
    Shiva Temple centered
  • Shiva Temple, 1872 pencil on paper drawing by Thomas Moran
    Shiva Temple, 1872 pencil on paper drawing by Thomas Moran
  • Claude Birdseye Point (west spur of Shiva Temple), named for Claude Hale Birdseye (1878–1941), Chief Topographic Engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey, whose expedition in 1923 down a portion of the Colorado River did much to advance knowledge about the Grand Canyon area.
    Claude Birdseye Point (west spur of Shiva Temple), named for Claude Hale Birdseye (1878–1941), Chief Topographic Engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey, whose expedition in 1923 down a portion of the Colorado River did much to advance knowledge about the Grand Canyon area.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Shiva Temple, Arizona". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  2. ^ USGS map, Shiva Temple quadrangle
  3. ^ a b c "Shiva Temple – 7,646' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Shiva Temple". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  5. ISBN 9780914778097
    , page 45.
  6. ^ a b Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 150.
  7. ^ Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151.
  8. ^ May 29, 1994, Ruth Stephens Baker oral history interview with Karen Underhill, Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection
  9. ^ https://www.grandcanyonhistory.org/uploads/3/4/4/2/34422134/top_2006_4.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ISSN 1027-5606
    .
  11. ^ N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, page 35.
  12. ISBN 9781934656013
    .
  13. ^ ”Shiva’s Temple”, Arizona, Nature 140 (613)1937 (1937 nature survey expedition) [1]

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