Dragon Head (Arizona)
Dragon Head is a elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US. It is situated in the north of the Hindu Amphitheater, ~2.0 miles west of Shiva Temple, and ~2.5 mi southeast of Grama Point. Unlike the extensive Ponderosa Pine forest of Shiva Temple, tableland/plateau prominence, Dragon Head’s flat-topped, is only populated with a marginal non-Ponderosa forest. Shiva Temple is approximately 275 acres, where Dragon Head is an ~5 acre prominence platform.
Geology &; Forests
The lightly forested horizontal platform of Dragon Head, is created because of the debris from the eroded platform of the cliff-former, Kaibab Limestone. Below the Kaibab are slopes of the Toroweap Formation, on the shorter cliff of Coconino Sandstone, upon eroded slopes of Hermit Shale. The shale sits on the four units of the Supai Group, a colorful deep-orange-red, and layered by units 2 and 4 as cliffs, and units 1 and 3 as eroded slopes. The Kaibab-prominence platform created, is caused because of the hardness of the Kaibab Limestone. Peakery.com states the prominence as 520 ft, which refers to the Kaibab Limestone and Toroweap Formation slope; the peakbagger prominence includes the rock layers below the Kaibab.The Kaibab Limestone rests on an extensive slope of slope-forming Toroweap Formation, which is more heavily forested than the Kaibab Limestone platform,. The ridgeline that Dragon Head sits on is a mostly north-south ridge, and it is a heavily-forested platform of the cliff-former Coconino Sandstone.