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unusual facts about sedimentary



Acristavus

The Wahweap Formation is part of the Grand Staircase region, an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon.

Arno Bay, South Australia

Of particular note is 'Redbanks', a sedimentary cliff structure which is designated a geological monument by the Geological Society of Australia.

Asao-ku, Kawasaki

In March 1913, a fossil tooth from a Parastegodon (similar to the Stegodon genus) was found in what is now Yurigaoka 2-19 in the upper sedimentary layers of mudstone.

Asir Mountains

The mountains consist primarily of sedimentary rock, limestone, sandstone and shale, of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Paleogene origin on a Precambrian granitic basement.

Aspers, Pennsylvania

The area surrounding the town is underlain by the Triassic sedimentary rocks of the Gettysburg Formation.

Atlantic Plain

The Atlantic Plain is generally gently dipping undeformed Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments, with the sedimentary wedge thickening toward the sea, reaching a maximum thickness of about 3 kilometers (10,000 ft) in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Baldonnel

Baldonnel Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Chapel Island Formation

The Chapel Island Formation is a sedimentary formation from the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.

Cyclone Bola

As such, it had a large and lasting effect on the rivers of the area when it deposited a large amount of sediment, as recorded in the sedimentary record of Lake Tutira.

Dwyka

Dwyka Group, a group of sedimentary geological formations in Southern Africa

Energy policy of Venezuela

Venezuela's main oil fields are located at four major sedimentary basins: Maracaibo, Falcon, Apure, and Oriental.

Environment Institute University of Adelaide

The Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) undertakes research on the evolution and environmental change across time through the use of preserved genetic records from human, animal, plant and sedimentary remains.

Geology of Azerbaijan

Sedimentary deposits embracing the southwestern parts of the Major and Minor Caucasus, including the intermountain Kur River trough, as well as the Mid- and South Caspian basins consist of diversity fold systems.

Geology of Gotland

Reef growth started in the Llandovery, when the sea was 50–100 m deep, and reefs continued to dominate the sedimentary record.

Gifford Pinchot State Park

Approximately 180 million years ago, the diabase intruded into older Triassic sedimentary rocks of the Gettysburg Formation, consisting of red sandstone and shale.

Horseshoe Canyon

Horseshoe Canyon Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.

Howell Mountains

Although bedrock in most parts of the Howell Mountains is a geologic formation of volcanic origin known as the Sonoma Volcanics, older sedimentary rocks of the Cretaceous age Great Valley Sequence are found in the Benecia area at the southern end of the range, and in the Lake Hennessey area to the east of St. Helena.

James Monger

Monger concentrated his research on field studies and detailed geological mapping of upper Paleozoic and lower Mesozoic volcanic and sedimentary layers.

Kiskatinaw

Kiskatinaw Formation, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Magnesian Escarpment

The rocks of the Magnesian layer overlay rocks of the Cambrian Period, the oldest sedimentary rocks that contain fossils.

Mannville

Mannville Group, a stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Mount Lloyd George

The diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin.

Muskiki

Muskiki Formation, a stratigraphical unit of Late Cretaceous age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Peronidella

Peronidella is an extinct genus of Calcareous sponges found in marine sedimentary rocks dated between the Devonian and the Cretaceous periods.

Polystrate fossil

They discovered that the “Spirorbis” fossils found in sedimentary strata, including the Joggins and other Carboniferous coal measures, deposited from the Ordovician to Triassic periods are the remains of an extinct order of lophophorates (now called microconchids) unrelated to modern marine tube worms (Annelids) to which the genus Spirorbis belongs.

Purbeck Monocline

The term 'fold' is used in geology when one or more originally flat sedimentary strata surfaces are bent or curved as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.

River Holford

The geology of the river consists of three different rock types at the top of the river there is the Devonian Quartzite(Metamorphic), in the middle of the river there is the Permo-Triassic Marl(Sedimentary) and the lower part of the river consists of Jurassic Limestone(Sedimentary).

Shaunavon

Shaunavon Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Sierran Arc

In addition, thick sequences (accumulations) of Mesozoic-age sedimentary rocks, mostly marine shales and sandstone of Jurassic and Cretaceous age, are locally preserved along the western side of the Peninsular Ranges and throughout the western Transverse Ranges in parts of the Santa Monica Mountains and mountainous Los Padres National Forest region north of Santa Barbara, California.

The Voyage of the Beagle

FitzRoy's account includes Remarks with reference to the Deluge in which he recanted his earlier interest in the geological writings of Charles Lyell and his remarks to Darwin during the expedition that sedimentary features they saw "could never have been effected by a forty days' flood", asserting his renewed commitment to a literal reading of the Bible.

Treffgarne Bridge Quarry

The sedimentary rocks have yielded a variety of fossils that indicate that the rocks were formed around 490 million years ago and therefore provide a means of correlation with other key sites such as those in North Wales and Shropshire.

Vosges

While the west part of the Vosges is flat sedimentary land (well suited for mineral waters), the east is dominated by the Vosges Mountain range (including the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Reserve) of which the Grand Ballon at 1424m is the highest peak.

Willwood Formation

The Willwood Formation is a sedimentary sequence deposited during the late Paleocene to early Eocene.

Wilpena Pound

The area has given its name to the Wilpena Group of sedimentary rocks making up the younger sediments of the geosyncline, and names of further subdivisions also originate from the area: particularly the Pound Subgroup, made up of Rawnsley Quartzite and Bonney Sandstone.


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