Rama Shrine

Rama Shrine is a 6,406-foot (1,953 m)-elevation platform-summit located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. The Shrine is named for Rama, the Hindu god of chivalry and virtue. The landform is attached at the southeast to the Vishnu Temple massif, about 1.0 mile (1.6 km) distant. Rama Shrine is about 3.0 miles (4.8 km) southeast of the Cape Royal overlook, Walhalla Plateau (southeast Kaibab Plateau, North Rim). A twin landform occupies the southwest of Vishnu Temple, the Krishna Shrine. Rama Shrine towers about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above the Colorado River, about 2.0 miles (3.2 km) southeast. Drainages to the Colorado are east and southeast; between the two Shrines, is the south Asbestos Canyon drainage.

The Rama Shrine prominence is a rectangular platform of the Supai Group (unit 4 of 4), the cliff-former (and platform-former), hard Esplanade Sandstone. Remainder debris of very-shallow slopes of burnt-red Hermit Shale (a slope-former) cover the horizontal platform.

Rama Shrine
Krishna, Vishnu, & Rama prominences
(Freya Castle at left rear)
Highest point
Elevation6,406 ft (1,953 m) [1]
Prominence706 ft (215 m) [1]
Parent peakVishnu Temple
Isolation0.98 mi (1.58 km) [1]
Coordinates36.078318°N 111.9237735°W / 36.078318; -111.9237735 [2]
Geography
Rama Shrine
Location in Arizona
Rama Shrine
Rama Shrine (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeKaibab Plateau
(Walhalla Plateau)
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Cape Royal
Geology
Age of rockPermian down to Cambrian
Mountain typesedimentary rock: shale, sandstone,siltstone, mudstone, limestone, shale
Type of rockHermit Shale-(prominence-debris)
Supai Group-(unit 4, platform-Esplanade Sandstone),
Supai Group,
Redwall Limestone,
Muav Limestone,
Bright Angel Shale

Geology
Rama Shrine with Jupiter Temple left, and Venus Temple right

The geology of Rama Shrine is basically identical to its Vishnu Temple neighbor; on Vishnu Temple, the slopes of dark burnt-red Hermit Shale (a slope-former), are large and visible. The debris-remainder on the Rama Shrine platform is of similar color, and is composed of Hermit Shale debris-remainder, upon hard Esplanade Sandstone (unit 4, Supai), and the debris is dark-burnt-red, and discontinuous in its depth.

Beneath the Supai Group, is the platform and cliff of Redwall Limestone, and below, the three Cambrian units.

See also

References
  1. "Rama Shrine - 6,406' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  2. Rama Shrine, Topozone
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