The Wingate Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States which crops out in northern...
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Kansas Wingate, Missouri Wingate, Brooklyn, New York Wingate, North Carolina Wingate, Maryland Wingate, Pennsylvania Wingate Sandstone, a geologic formation...
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the Owl Rock (they were later filled with sand from the overlying Wingate Sandstone). Also found in the Owl Rock are trace fossils of cylindrical burrows...
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includes (in ascending order) the Wingate Sandstone, the Moenave Formation, the Kayenta Formation, and the Navajo Sandstone. Each of the formations can be...
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Glen Canyon Group (redirect from Glen Canyon Sandstone)
Sandstone in the Green River Basin of Colorado and Utah. There are four formations within the group. From oldest to youngest, these are the Wingate Sandstone...
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Aeolian processes (redirect from Eolian sandstone)
ergs of the western US. These include the Wingate Sandstone, the Navajo Sandstone, and the Page Sandstone. Individual formations are separated by regional...
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Kayenta Formation (redirect from Kayenta Sandstone)
frequently appears as a thinner dark broken layer below Navajo Sandstone and above Wingate Sandstone (all three formations are in the same group). Together,...
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Sedimentary rock (section Sandstones)
Quartz sandstones have >90% quartz grains Feldspathic sandstones have <90% quartz grains and more feldspar grains than lithic grains Lithic sandstones have...
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Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle...
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includes (from oldest - lowest - to youngest) the Wingate Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and the Navajo Sandstone These formations are most prominently exposed...
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Owl Rock (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
National Park in Utah. Owl Rock is a red spire composed of Jurassic Wingate Sandstone which is a hard, fine-grained rock which is great for rock climbing...
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boundary. The 200-square-foot (19 m2) rock is a part of the vertical Wingate sandstone cliffs that enclose the upper end of Indian Creek Canyon, and is covered...
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Chinle Formation (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
is distinct enough that it was previously considered a unit of the Wingate Sandstone, a latest Triassic - early Jurassic aeolian formation which overlies...
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The Navajo Sandstone is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, northwest...
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the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley. The...
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Kissing Couple (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
composed primarily of cliff-forming Wingate Sandstone, which consists of wind-borne, cross-bedded quartzose sandstones deposited as ancient sand dunes approximately...
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Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle...
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distinct. For instance, a unit may be defined by terms such as "when the sandstone component exceeds 75%". Sequences of sedimentary and volcanic rocks are...
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the Glen Canyon Group, consisting of the Navajo Sandstone, Kayenta Formation, and Wingate Sandstone. The entire stratigraphic section includes rocks...
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area, creating what is known as Wingate Sandstone. The more recent (Jurassic Period) formations include Kayenta Sandstone, which produces the trademark...
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The Rectory (Utah) (category Sandstone formations of the United States)
1,000 feet (300 m) long north-to-south butte with 200 ft vertical Wingate Sandstone walls tower standing on a 1,000-foot Moenkopi-Chinle base. Precipitation...
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030 m) summit on the northeastern border of Castle Valley, Utah. The Wingate Sandstone tower itself is 400 feet (120 m) high and stands on a 1,000-foot (300 m)...
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Swell. Composed primarily of steeply tilted layers of Navajo and Wingate Sandstone, it has been eroded into tall fins, domes, cliffs, and deep canyons...
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Formation, the cliff-forming Wingate Sandstone, the Kayenta Formation, and the crossbedded Triassic-Jurassic Navajo Sandstone. Structurally, the dome is...
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area for details). The flat-lying Chuska Sandstone was deposited about 34 million years ago; the sandstone is predominantly of eolian origin and locally...
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categories: sandstone, shale, carbonate, and evaporite. This group of classifications focuses partly on the size of sedimentary particles (sandstone and shale)...
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Canyon) Wingate Sandstone: in the Colorado Plateau Aqua Creek Sandstone: used to build the Whitehouse Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sandstone. List...
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late-Triassic during a time of increasing aridity. They include: Wingate Sandstone: sand dunes on the shore of an ancient sea Kayenta Formation: thin-bedded...
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Morrison Formation. The Zuni Formation unconformably rests on the Wingate Sandstone or Chinle Group and is unconformably overlain by the Dakota Formation...
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Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle...
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