Diana Temple (Grand Canyon)

Diana Temple is a 6,683-foot-elevation (2,037 meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, USA.[3] It is situated nine miles northwest of Grand Canyon Village, and immediately northeast of Mescalero Point. Pollux Temple is one mile northwest, Marsh Butte one mile east-northeast, and Vesta Temple is one mile south. Topographic relief is significant as Diana Temple rises nearly 4,300 feet (1,310 meters) above the Colorado River in less than two miles. Diana Temple is named for Diana, the goddess of the hunt and the moon according to Roman mythology.[4] Clarence Dutton began the practice of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.[5] The U.S. Geological Survey applied the name, and this geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1908 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[3] In the early 1900s this mesa was sometimes called "No Mans Land".[3] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Diana Temple is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.[6]

Diana Temple
 
Aerial view of southeast aspect
Highest point
Elevation6,683 ft (2,037 m) [1]
Prominence412 ft (126 m) [2]
Parent peakMencius Temple (7,001 ft)[2]
Isolation4.93 mi (7.93 km) [2]
Coordinates36°06′43″N 112°16′12″W [3]
Geography
Diana Temple
Location in Arizona
Diana Temple
Diana Temple (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeCoconino Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Piute Point
Geology
Type of rocklimestone, sandstone, mudstone

Geology
Diana Temple, east aspect from the air

The forested top of Diana Temple is composed of Permian Kaibab Limestone overlaying cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone.[7] The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is reddish, slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group.[8] Further down are strata of the conspicuous cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone, the Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally granite of the Paleoproterozoic Vishnu Basement Rocks at river level in Granite Gorge. Precipitation runoff from Diana Temple drains east to the Colorado River via Slate Creek on the north side of the mesa, and Topaz Canyon on the south side.

See also

References
  1. "Diana Temple, Arizona". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  2. "Diana Temple - 6,683' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  3. "Diana Temple". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  4. N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, page 78.
  5. Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151.
  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.
  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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