- The
Mesaverde Formation was
first described by W.H.Holmes in 1877
during the
Hayden Survey.
Holmes described the
formation in the
northern San Juan Basin...
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surrounded by
sandstone escarpments that are part of the
Mesaverde Group.
Above the
Mesaverde Group escarpments are
incised valleys that
contain the Lewis...
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James Garfield a year
after Garfield's death. The
mountain is
composed of
Mesaverde Group overlaying Mancos Shale. "Mount Garfield, Colorado". Peakbagger...
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through the canyon.
Geologically the
canyon walls are
stairstep cliffs of
Mesaverde Group, s****line
sands deposited during the Cretaceous. The sedimentary...
- Wave-Dominated
Deltaic Deposits and ****ociated Sand-Rich
Strand Plains,
Mesaverde Group,
Northwest Colorado". AAPG Bulletin. 66 (5): 551–552. Kauffman,...
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where Kmt and Kmf are the
Tununk and
Ferron Sandstone members of the
Mancos Shale, Km. Kmv is the
Mesaverde Group, and Tkn is the
North Horn Formation....
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Mountain ****ociation of Geologists, 1977) 293–300.
Robert Chancellor, "
Mesaverde hydraulic fracture stimulation,
northern Piceance Basin –
progress report"...
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eastward into the seaway. The
resulting 300 to 400 foot (90 to 120 m)
thick Mesaverde Formation consists of light-brown to dark-gray thick-bedded and cross-stratified...
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species P.
megakeros was
named by
Lillegraven and
McKenna in 1986 from the "
Mesaverde"
Formation of Wyoming, and
indeterminate species of
Paranyctoides have...
- Formations.
These layers in turn rest on a
Cretaceous layer known as the
Mesaverde Group that
forms a
cliff about halfway up the side of the mesa. The lowest...
