Topographic relief is significant as Pollux Temple rises nearly 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) above the Colorado River in less than two miles.

[4] Clarence Dutton began the practice of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.

[7] The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes.

Below the Coconino Sandstone is reddish, slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group.

Precipitation runoff from Pollux Temple drains north to the Colorado River via Agate and Sapphire Canyons.