Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National ParkReed, John C. (John Calvin)
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Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park
Reed, John C. (John Calvin)
Geology -- Wyoming -- Grand Teton National Park
margin of Antelope
Flat.
Camp Davis 0-5,500 Conglomerate, red Southernmost tip of
Formation and gray, with Jackson Hole.
white tuff,
diatomite, and red
and white claystone.
Miocene
Colter 0-7,000 Volcanic Pilgrim and Ditch
Formation conglomerate, tuff, Creeks, and north
and sandstone, end of Teton Range.
white to
green-brown, with
locally-derived
basalt and andesite
rock fragments.
Oligocene
Wiggins 0-3,000 Volcanic Eastern margin of
Formation conglomerate, gray Jackson Hole.
to brown, with
white tuff layers.
Eocene
Unnamed upper 0-1,000 Tuff, conglomerate, Eastern margin of
and middle sandstone, and Jackson Hole.
Eocene claystone, green,
sequence underlain by
variegated
claystone and
quartzite pebble
conglomerate.
Wind River 2,000-3,000 Claystone and Eastern margin of
and Indian sandstone, Jackson Hole.
Meadows variegated, and
Formations locally-derived
conglomerate;
persistent coal and
gray shale zone in
middle.
Paleocene
Unnamed 1,000-2,000 Sandstone and Eastern margin of
greenish-gray claystone, Jackson Hole.
and brown greenish-gray and
sandstone and brown,
claystone intertonguing at
sequence base with quartzite
pebble conglomerate.
Pinyon 500-5,000 Conglomerate, Eastern part of
Conglomerate brown, chiefly of Jackson Hole, Mt.
rounded quartzite; Leidy and Pinyon
coal and claystone Peak Highlands, and
locally at base. north end of Teton
Range.
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