Colter Butte
| Colter Butte | |
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| File:Colter Butte.jpg Colter Butte centered. Northwest aspect as seen from Point Imperial. (summit spire of Mount Hayden in foreground) | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 7,254 ft (2,211 m)[1] |
| Prominence | 994 ft (303 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Alsap Butte (7,500 ft)[1] |
| Isolation | 1.94 mi (3.12 km)[1] |
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| Geography | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Coconino |
| Protected area | Grand Canyon National Park |
| Parent range | Kaibab Plateau Colorado Plateau |
| Topo map | USGS Walhalla Plateau |
| Geology | |
| Rock type(s) | sandstone, limestone, shale |
Colter Butte is a 7,254-foot-elevation (2,211-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon in Coconino County of northern Arizona, US.[2] It is situated four miles southeast of Point Imperial, where it towers 3,600 feet (1,100 meters) above Nankoweap Canyon. Its neighbors include Brady Peak, 2.5 miles to the west-northwest, Alsap Butte two miles to the northwest, and Swilling Butte one-half mile to the east. Colter Butte is named after James G. H. Colter (1844–1922), born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he came to the Arizona Territory in 1872 as a pioneer, farmer, cattleman, Apache and desperado fighter.[2][3] He was the father of Arizona state senator Fred Colter.[4] This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1932 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[2] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Colter Butte is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone.[5] This butte is composed of Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group which overlays cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone, which in turn overlays slope-forming Cambrian Tonto Group.[6] Precipitation runoff from this feature drains east to the Colorado River via Nankoweap Creek on the north side and Kwagunt Creek from the south slope.
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References
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- ^ Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., page 37.
- ^ Will C. Barnes, Arizona Place Names, 1988, University of Arizona Press, page 105.
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- ^ William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
