Dox Castle
Dox Castle was named by William Wallace Bass and George Wharton James for Virginia Dox (1851–1941), who was the first white woman to visit this part of the Grand Canyon in 1891. Holy Grail Temple was originally named Bass Tomb by Virginia Dox, for William Bass, Dox's guide into the canyon. Impressed by her, Bass named Dox Castle shortly after she left. This butte's name was officially adopted in 1908 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Dox Castle is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone, with precipitation runoff draining west to the Colorado River via Shinumo Creek.
Dox Castle is composed of Cambrian rock from the Tonto Group, overlaying the Proterozoic Unkar Group at river level. Levi F. Noble named the Dox Formation because of exposures in a tributary to Shinumo Creek below Dox Castle.
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References
- ^ "Dox Castle – 4,780' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
- ^ "Dox Castle". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ^ Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, ISBN 9780898865332, p. 48.
- ^ Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, p. 99.
- ^ Lauren A. Wright and Bennie W. Troxel, Levi Noble: Geologist, 2002, USGS, p. 8.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
- ^ Noble, Levi F, The Shinumo Quadrangle, Grand Canyon District, Arizona. (1914), Bulletin no. 549. US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia. p. 53.
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- Weather forecast: National Weather Service
- William Wallace Bass: Allhikers.com