Escalante Butte
Escalante Butte is a prominence adjacent the far eastern South Rim of the Grand Canyon, of Northern Arizona. Adjacent east is a lower elevation butte, Cardenas Butte. Both buttes,, are part of the western drainage of north-trending Tanner Canyon into the Colorado River.Geology – Escalante &; Cardenas Buttes
Escalante Butte and Cardenas Butte lie upon the same Supai Group ridgeline. At the west, Escalante is separated by a ridge saddle. Escalante Butte prominence is a small, heavily eroded cliff and debris remainder of Coconino Sandstone,, on eroded ridges of the Supai Group. Cardenas Butte, is about lower, east, on an eroded ridgeline of Supai Group. Its small spire is a surviving cliff-former unit of the Supai Group.