It is also one mile south of Kissing Couple, and both can be seen from viewpoints along Rim Rock Drive.

[4] This feature is the remnant of differentially eroded Wingate Sandstone, which consists of wind-borne, cross-bedded quartzose sandstones deposited as ancient sand dunes approximately 200 million years ago in the Late Triassic.

The caprock at the top of one of the four pillars consists of fluvial sandstones of the resistant Kayenta Formation.

[5] The floor of the canyon is Precambrian basement rock consisting of gneiss, schist, and granites.

Precipitation runoff from this geographical feature drains to the Colorado River, approximately four miles to the northeast.