| Rama Shrine | |
| Photo Size: | 305px |
| Label: | Rama Shrine |
| Label Position: | right |
| Elevation Ft: | 6406 |
| Prominence Ft: | 706 |
| Isolation Mi: | 0.98 |
| Isolation Ref: | [1] |
| Parent Peak: | Vishnu Temple |
| Location: | Grand Canyon National Park Coconino County, Arizona, US |
| Range: | Kaibab Plateau (Walhalla Plateau) Colorado Plateau |
| Map: | Arizona#USA |
| Map Size: | 230 |
| Coordinates: | 36.0783°N -111.9238°W |
| Coordinates Ref: | [2] |
| Topo: | USGS Cape Royal |
| Age: | Permian down to Mesoproterozoic-(east flank, northwest of Colorado River) |
| Type: | sedimentary rock shale, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, limestone, shale, basalt, silty-sandstone, sandstone |
| Rock: | Hermit Shale-(prominence-debris) Supai Group-(unit 4, platform-Esplanade Sandstone), Supai Group, Redwall Limestone, Tonto Group-(3 units), 3_Muav Limestone, 2_Bright Angel Shale, 1_Tapeats Sandstone, Grand Canyon Supergroup-(4 units), 1-Unkar Group-(5-units), (unit 5)-Cardenas Basalt, (unit 4)-Dox Formation |
Rama Shrine is a 6406feet-elevation platform-summit located in the eastern Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. The Shrine is named for Rama, the Hindu god of chivalry and virtue. The landform is attached at the southeast to the Vishnu Temple massif, about distant. Rama Shrine is about southeast of the Cape Royal overlook, Walhalla Plateau (southeast Kaibab Plateau, North Rim). A twin landform occupies the southwest of Vishnu Temple, the Krishna Shrine. Rama Shrine towers about above the Colorado River, about southeast. Drainages to the Colorado are east and southeast; between the two Shrines, is the south Asbestos Canyon drainage.
The Rama Shrine prominence is a rectangular platform of the Supai Group (unit 4 of 4), the cliff-former (and platform-former), hard Esplanade Sandstone. Remainder debris of very-shallow slopes of burnt-red Hermit Shale (a slope-former) cover the horizontal platform.
The geology of Rama Shrine is basically identical to its Vishnu Temple neighbor; on Vishnu Temple, the slopes of dark burnt-red Hermit Shale (a slope-former), are large and visible. The debris-remainder on the Rama Shrine platform is of similar color, and is composed of Hermit Shale debris-remainder, upon hard Esplanade Sandstone (unit 4, Supai), and the debris is dark-burnt-red, and discontinuous in its depth.
Beneath the Supai Group, is the platform and cliff of Redwall Limestone, and below, the three Cambrian units.
When Rama Shrine is viewed from the southeast, (from the South Rim), it overlooks the northwest side of the Colorado River, and a wide expanse of hills and valleys of the colorful Dox Formation, (Mesoproterozoic). The southeast flank of Rama Shrine can be seen down to the Tapeats Sandstone, (the Great Unconformity). (The 1,000 million-year time erosion, and the ancient rock layers below.)