Cheops Pyramid is a summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US.
Description This butte is situated four miles north of Grand Canyon Village, 2.5 miles south-southwest of Buddha Temple, and 1.7 mile south-southeast of Isis Temple, which is the nearest higher neighbor. Topographic relief is significant as it rises above the Colorado River in 1.5 mile. It was named by George Wharton James for the fanciful resemblance to the famous pyramid constructed by Egyptian Pharaoh Cheops.Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, , page 34. This was in keeping with Clarence Dutton's tradition of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151. This butte's toponym was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Cheops Pyramid is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.
Geology Cheops Pyramid is a flat-topped erosional remnant composed of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, overlaying the green shale slopes of the Cambrian Tonto Group, and below that red shale and Shinumo Quartzite of the Proterozoic Unkar Group.N.H. Darton, Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona, 1917, pages 26, 37. Precipitation runoff from Cheops Pyramid drains south to the Colorado River via Phantom Creek (east), and Ninetyone Mile Creek (west).
See also Geology of the Grand Canyon area Grand Canyon Supergroup
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