Isis Temple is a prominence in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, Southwestern United States. It is located below the North Rim and adjacent to the Granite Gorge along the Colorado River. The Trinity Creek and canyon flow due south at its west border; its north, and northeast border/flank is formed by Phantom Creek and canyon, a west tributary of Bright Angel Creek; the creeks intersect about 3 mi (4.8 km) southeast, and 1.0 mi (1.6 km) north of Granite Gorge. The Isis Temple prominence, is only about 202 ft (62 m) lower than Grand Canyon Village, the main public center on Grand Canyon’s South Rim.
Isis Temple is the landform on the right with the summit block (capstone). (Flat-topped & heavily forested Shiva Temple prominence to left)
Isis Temple from 2-mi SSW. From Dana Butte region upon (west)-Tonto Trail, south Granite Gorge. Right of Isis peak is the southwest cliff of the ridgeline: The Colonnade, at Tiyo Point; behind Isis peak is Tiyo Point, North Rim, and the Kaibab-Toroweap-Coconino Sandstone cliff sequence-(white-dark-white), and forested top, about 5.5-mi from Dana Butte, Tonto Trail.
View from southwest, (5.5-mi distant, from Pima Point, South Rim) 2-prominences, Isis Temple, separated from Buddha Temple-(and Buddha Cloister) by Phantom Creek (canyon) between Flat-topped Shiva Temple-(1.5-mi NW, same elevation as Kaibab Plateau), at photo left (note thicker unit of white, Coconino Sandstone, because of closer distance to viewpoint)
Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid, from South Rim region
The Supai Group is a slope-forming section of red bed deposits found in the Colorado Plateau. The group was laid down during the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian. Cliff-forming interbeds of sandstone are noticeable throughout the group. The Supai Group is especially exposed throughout the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona, as well as local regions of southwest Utah, such as the Virgin River valley region. It occurs in Arizona at Chino Point, Sycamore Canyon, and famously at Sedona as parts of Oak Creek Canyon. In the Sedona region, it is overlain by the Hermit Formation, and the colorful Schnebly Hill Formation.
Example Supai red beds, north projecting ridgeline, South Rim, Grand Canyon
Entire four-member sequence, Isis Temple, Grand Canyon
Detail of bedding