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List of Supai Group prominences in the Grand Canyon

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Source revisionMar 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ105200403 ↗
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This is a list of Supai Group prominences in the Grand Canyon. Landforms with up to 4 units of Supai Group, as prominences.

The rock unit sequences are as follows:

Coconino Sandstone, (prominence, Permian unit)

Hermit Shale, Permian

Supai Group, (4 units, Pennsylvanian-Permian)

4 – Esplanade Sandstone, (Permian)(Typically forms a resistant (& thick) cliff, thickening in Western Grand Canyon)

3 – Wescogame Formation

2 – Manakacha Formation, (a resistant cliff-former; can make cliffs, or cliffs, with a platform on prominence)

1 – Watahomigi Formation

(localized-Surprise Canyon Formation)

Redwall Limestone-cliff-former (and platform-former)

Supai Group (4 units)

Supai Group, Esplanade Sandstone (unit 4)

Supai Group, Manakacha Formation

Supai Group, Watahomigi Formation

Coconino Sandstone cliffs on Supai (#4)-Esplanade Sandstone platform

The cliff-former (and a platform-former) Esplanade Sandstone supports cliffs of Coconino Sandstone, the cliffs being on slope-former Hermit Shale, then the Esplanade Sandstone platform.

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