Sheba Temple

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Sheba Temple
Sheba Temple – (left, (ridgeline,below cliff)) Solomon Temple – (right)
Highest point
Elevation	4,990 ft (1,520 m)[1]
Prominence	410 ft (120 m)[1]
Parent peak	Rama Shrine
Isolation	0.86 mi (1.38 km)[1]
Coordinates	36°03′38″N 111°55′49″W / 36.0605402°N 111.9301623°W / 36.0605402; -111.9301623[2]
Geography
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Location	Grand Canyon National Park Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent range	Kaibab Plateau (Walhalla Plateau) Colorado Plateau
Topo map	USGS Cape Royal
Geology
Age of rock	Mississippian down to Cambrian
Mountain type	sedimentary rock: sandstone, shale, quartzite
Type of rock	Redwall Limestone-(extreme cliff-erosion-remnants) Muav Limestone, Tonto Group-(3-units) 3_Muav Limestone, 2_Bright Angel Shale, 1_Tapeats Sandstone, Unkar Group units (3 of 5) 3_Shinumo Quartzite, 2_Hakatai Shale

Sheba Temple is a 4,990-foot (1,520 m)-elevation summit located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. The landform is 1.0 mile (1.6 km) west of Solomon Temple, 1.0 mile south of Rama Shrine (adjacent a south-projecting ridgeline), and about one mile north-northeast of the west-flowing Colorado River. The west of Sheba Temple's drainage is the short Asbestos Canyon which drains Krishna Shrine, northwest, Vishnu Temple (Grand Canyon), northwesterly, and Rama Shrine, north; the east side of Sheba Temple's drainage are short north drainages to the Colorado.

Sheba Temple is composed of extreme cliff-erosion-remnants of Redwall Limestone, (very vertical and very narrow, ~north-south aligned), upon a platform of Muav Limestone; as unit three of the 3-member Cambrian Tonto Group, the Muav is also upon wide slope-former slopes of the dull-greenish Bright Angel Shale. Sheba Temple is a narrow ridgeline trending slightly north-northeast-by-south-southwest and has been geologically detached from the Redwall cliff extending south from Rama Shrine. Of note, the remnant, white prominence, is the same elevation as Solomon Temple east, Solomon's is an actual small platform of a white cliff-former. Sheba Temple's prominence is only a remainder of that cliff-former (Redwall interlayer).

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