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Landform in the Grand Canyon, Arizona
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Atoko Point
Kwagunt Canyon, Atoko Point (right)
Highest point
Elevation8,382 ft (2,555 m)
Prominence50 ft (15 m)
Parent peakprominence 8442 ft
Isolation0.5 mi (0.80 km)
Coordinates36°12′41″N 111°56′01″W / 36.2113831°N 111.9334981°W / 36.2113831; -111.9334981
Geography
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LocationGrand Canyon National Park,
(Walhalla Plateau)
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeKaibab Plateau
(Walhalla Plateau)
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Walhalla Plateau
Geology
Rock agePermian
Mountain typesedimentary rock: limestone-(prominence-cliff)
Rock typeKaibab Limestone

Atoko Point is a 8,382 ft-cliff-elevation Point located in the eastern Grand Canyon, Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. It is about 6.5 miles south-southeast of the northernmost point on the east of the North Rim (Point Imperial), but most of the points south, are on the East Rim (or South Rim) of the sub-plateau, the Walhalla Plateau. Atoko Point is 1.3 miles southeast of Roosevelt Point, and also 2.6 miles southeast of the Vista Encantada viewpoint. Two headwater canyons of Upper Kwagunt Creek and Canyon bisect around Atoko Point, and drain east to the south-flowing Colorado River, about 6.5 miles east, in the southernmost stretch of Marble Canyon. Atoko Point lies about one mile east of the Cape Royal Road.

The cliff of Atoko Point is composed of Kaibab Limestone, upon Toroweap Formation, on white cliffs of Coconino Sandstone. Below is soft erodible, dk-burnt red Hermit Shale, on bright-red-orange Supai Group layers (4 units).

References

  1. Aerial view – 8,382 ft, Atoko Point, Mountainzone
  2. Atoko Point, Topozone.com

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