Manu Temple
Manu Temple centered, south aspect
(Buddha Temple left, Oza Butte upper right)
Highest point
Elevation7,184 ft (2,190 m)[1]
Prominence524 ft (160 m)[1]
Parent peakBuddha Temple (7,212 ft)[1]
Isolation1.26 mi (2.03 km)[1]
Coordinates36°10′00″N 112°05′02″W / 36.1666610°N 112.0838942°W / 36.1666610; -112.0838942[2]
Geography
Manu Temple is located in Arizona
Manu Temple
Manu Temple
Location in Arizona
Manu Temple is located in the United States
Manu Temple
Manu Temple
Manu Temple (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeKaibab Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Bright Angel Point
Geology
Type of rocksandstone, limestone, mudstone
Climbing
Easiest routeclass 4 climbing[1]

Manu Temple is a 7,184-foot-elevation (2,190-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States.[2] It is situated one mile south of the North Rim's Widforss Point, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of parent Buddha Temple, and three miles southwest of the North Rim's Bright Angel Point. Topographic relief is significant as it rises nearly 3,600 feet (1,100 meters) in two miles above Bright Angel Canyon to the east, and 2,200 feet in less than one mile above Haunted Canyon to the immediate west. Its neighbors include Brahma Temple and Deva Temple to the east on the opposite side of Bright Angel Canyon. From the South Rim of the canyon it may be difficult to discern Manu Temple from the walls of the Kaibab Plateau one mile behind it, but when the lighting and atmosphere are favorable, this butte of great proportions can be seen clearly defined.[3]

Manu Temple was named by George Wharton James for the Hindu lawgiver Manu, in keeping with Clarence Dutton's practice of naming features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.[2][4][5] This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2]

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Manu Temple is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.[6] Precipitation runoff from Manu Temple drains south into the Colorado River via Bright Angel Creek on its east side, and Phantom Creek on the west side.

Geology

The summit of Manu Temple is composed of cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, and deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes.[7] Below the Coconino Sandstone is slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group. Further down are strata of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally Proterozoic Unkar Group at creek level.[8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Manu Temple – 7,184' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Manu Temple". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  3. ↑ George Wharton James, The Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1910, Little Brown and Company, page 30.
  4. ↑ Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, pages 151, 170.
  5. ↑ George Wharton James, In and Around the Grand Canyon, 1900, Little, Brown, and Company, page 133.
  6. ↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
  7. ↑ N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, page 42.
  8. ↑ William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, ISBN 9781934656013.
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