The Geologic Story of Arches National Park: Geological Survey Bulletin 1393Lohman, Stanley William
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The Geologic Story of Arches National Park: Geological Survey Bulletin 1393
Lohman, Stanley William
Arches National Park (Utah); Geology -- Utah -- Arches National Park -- Guidebooks
Forms vertical cliffs along
Colorado River, Cache Valley, Salt Wash, and
Courthouse Wash.
0-350
Fort Wingate, N. Mex.
200
Chinle Formation
Irregularly bedded buff to red sandstone, red mudstone,
limestone, and conglomerate. Lenticular sandstone and
conglomerate (Moss Back Member) locally at base.
Freshwater shells, petrified wood, reptile bones.
Forms slopes.
0-700
Chinle Valley, Ariz.
Moss Back Ridge, Utah Unconformity
Middle(?) and Early Triassic
Moenkopi Formation
Thin-bedded brown shale, gray and brown sandstone, arkosic
grit, and conglomerate. Crops out on southwest side of
Moab Valley and in several places in Salt and Cache
Valleys. Forms slopes.
0-1,300
Moenkopi Wash, Ariz.
Unconformity
250
Permian
Cutler Formation
Chocolate brown and red sandy shale, maroon and pinkish-gray
arkose and conglomerate. Lower part probably
equivalent in age to Rico Formation in areas to south
and east. Crops out in Moab Canyon west of Moab fault.
Forms slopes.
0-2,500
Cutler Creek, Colo.
Pennsylvanian
Hermosa Formation
Unnamed upper member
Gray marine fossiliferous sandy limestone, gray and
greenish-gray sandstone and sandy shale, and red sandy
shale. Exposed in ledges southwest of Moab fault in
highway cut west of park entrance.
0-1,500
Hermosa Creek, Animas River Valley, Colo.
300
Paradox Member
Salt, gypsum, and anhydrite, with black and gray shale and
limestone. Few exposures in Salt and Cache Valleys.
Forms slopes.
0-11,000
Paradox Valley, Colo.
Unconformity
Pennsylvanian(?)
Unnamed conglomerate
Yellow sandstone with boulders of limestone and chert
containing Mississippian fossils. Exposed at two
places in Salt Valley.
?
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