Esplanade Sandstone
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The Lower Permian Esplanade Sandstone is a cliff-forming, resistant sandstone, dark red, geologic unit found in the Grand Canyon. The rock unit forms a resistant shelf in the west Grand Canyon, south
south view of Isis Temple, Grand Canyon, from 2-mi, on Tonto Trail, Tonto Platform uppermost vertical red cliff of Esplanade Sandstone (the lower large red vertical cliff is Redwall Limestone upon a lower shelf-cliff of grayish vertical Muav Limestone)
Aerial view – WNW of The Esplanade (Grand Canyon), south bank of Colorado River, with Toroweap Fault–(Prospect Canyon) as west border Uinkaret volcanic field at NW; Lava Falls below in Colorado River
Wescogame Formation
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The Late Pennsylvanian Wescogame Formation is a slope-forming, sandstone, red-orange geologic unit, formed from an addition of eolian sand, added to marine transgression deposits, and found throughout
Esplanade Sandstone
…F – Hermit Formation – grayish slopes E – Supai Group – (massive sloped ‘’red-beds’’) 4 – Esplanade Sandstone – cliff-former 3 – Wescogame Formation 2 – Manakacha Formation 1 – Watahomigi Formation D – Redwall Limestone – large (vertical) red cliff…
representative Supai Group 'redbeds' (ridgeline extending north from South Rim, Grand Canyon)
Close-up of 'redbeds'