Escalante Butte

Escalante Butte is a 6,536-foot (1,992 m) prominence adjacent the far eastern South Rim of the Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. Adjacent east is a lower elevation butte, Cardenas Butte. Both buttes, (and the South Rim), are part of the western drainage of north-trending Tanner Canyon into the Colorado River.

Escalante Butte
southwest aspect (shows long platform northwestwards of top of Redwall Limestone)
Highest point
Elevation	6,536 ft (1,992 m)[1]
Prominence	876 ft (267 m)[1]
Parent peak	Navajo Point (South Rim)
Coordinates	36.0492°N 111.8498°W / 36.0492; -111.8498 – GNIS Data
Geography
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Location	Grand Canyon Coconino County, Arizona, U.S.
Topo map	USGS Desert View
Geology
Rock age	Permian down to Cambrian
Mountain type(s)	sedimentary rock: sandstone, shale, siltstone, mudstone, sandstone, shale
Rock type(s)	Coconino Sandstone-(prominence), Hermit Shale, Supai Group-(eroded ridgeline), Redwall Limestone, Muav Limestone, Bright Angel Shale

Geology – Escalante & Cardenas Buttes

Escalante Butte, Prominence and rock units:
Coconino Sandstone-prominence,
Hermit Formation,
Supai Group (4-units),
Redwall Limestone,
Muav Limestone,
Bright Angel Shale.

Cardenas Butte – (left) on ridgeline

Escalante Butte and Cardenas Butte lie upon the same Supai Group ridgeline. At the west, Escalante is separated by a ridge saddle (the drainage southeast into Upper Tanner Canyon). Escalante Butte prominence is a small, heavily eroded cliff and debris remainder of Coconino Sandstone, (on debris of Hermit Shale), on eroded ridges of the Supai Group. Cardenas Butte, is about 300 feet (91 m) lower, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) east, on an eroded ridgeline of Supai Group. Its small spire is a surviving cliff-former unit of the Supai Group.

See also

• Geology of the Grand Canyon area
• Escalante Route
• Tanner Trail