Marsh Butte

Marsh Butte is a 4,721-foot-elevation (1,439 meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, USA.[2] It is situated eight miles northwest of Grand Canyon Village, immediately east-northeast of Diana Temple, and Tower of Ra stands across the opposite side of Granite Gorge. Topographic relief is significant as Marsh Butte rises over 2,300 feet (700 meters) above the Colorado River in half a mile (1 km). Marsh Butte is composed of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, overlaying the Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally granite of the Paleoproterozoic Vishnu Basement Rocks at river level in Granite Gorge.[3][4] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Marsh Butte is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.[5]

Marsh Butte
 
East aspect, from Tonto Trail
Highest point
Elevation4,721 ft (1,439 m) [1]
Prominence301 ft (92 m) [1]
Parent peakDiana Temple (6,683 ft)[1]
Isolation1.51 mi (2.43 km) [1]
Coordinates36°07′15″N 112°14′43″W [2]
Geography
Marsh Butte
Location in Arizona
Marsh Butte
Marsh Butte (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeCoconino Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Grand Canyon
Geology
Type of rocklimestone, shale, sandstone
Climbing
First ascent1977
Easiest routeclass 4 climbing[1]

History
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In March 1906, this butte was officially named "Endymion Dome", for Endymion of Greek mythology, in keeping with Clarence Dutton's practice of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.[2][6] However, George Wharton James suggested it should be named after preeminent paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), and two months later it was officially renamed in May 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2] George Wharton James described it in his 1910 book "The Grand Canyon of Arizona How to See It" as "a butte of singularly beautiful structure."[7]

The first ascent of the summit was made October 29, 1977, by Pete Baertlein and Mitch McCombs via the class 4 east ridge.[8]

See also
  • Marsh Butte (centered in bullseye), from Pima Point
  • Marsh Butte centered in bullseye, Geikie Peak behind it
  • Aerial view with Marsh Butte lower left, Diana Temple upper left, Geikie Peak centered at bullseye.
  • Aerial view of Diana Temple (upper left) and Marsh Butte (lower right)
  • Marsh Butte (end of ridge) formed in Redwall Limestone. Tapeats Sandstone (brown cliff at bottom of photograph), Manakacha Formation (red cliff at top of photograph).

References
  1. "Marsh Butte - 4,721' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  2. "Marsh Butte". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2021-01-14.
  3. N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, page 39.
  4. William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, ISBN 9781934656013.
  5. 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.
  6. Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151.
  7. George Wharton James, The Grand Canyon of Arizona How to See It, 1910, Little Brown and Company, page 40.
  8. Aaron Tomasi, Pernell Tomasi, Grand Canyon Summits Select An Obscure Compilation of Sixty-nine Remote Ascent Routes in the Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry, 2001, ISBN 9780971088009, page 54.
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