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    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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    Wave-Dominated Deltaic Deposits and Associated Sand-Rich Strand Plains, Mesaverde Group, Northwest Colorado". AAPG Bulletin. 66 (5): 551–552. Kauffman, E.G...
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  • the canyon. Geologically the canyon walls are stairstep cliffs of Mesaverde Group, shoreline sands deposited during the Cretaceous. The sedimentary rock...
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    Garfield a year after Garfield's death. The mountain is composed of Mesaverde Group overlaying Mancos Shale. "Mount Garfield, Colorado". Peakbagger.com...
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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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    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...
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    the Dakota, depositing the Mancos Shale. Only small remnants of the Mesaverde Group are found, capping a few mesas in the park's eastern section. Near...
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    target of gas development has been the Williams Fork Formation of the Mesaverde Group, of Cretaceous age. The Williams Fork is a several-thousand-foot thick...
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    Sandstone/J Sandstone – Wattenberg Gas Field, Denver Basin, Colorado, US Mesaverde Group – Piceance Basin, Colorado, US Rotliegend – Germany and Netherlands...
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    Mancos Shale (redirect from Mancos Group)
    Stratigraphically the Mancos Shale fills the interval between the Dakota and the Mesaverde Group. The lower marine Mancos Shale conformably intertongues with terrestrial...
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    late 1970s by its use in gas wells drilled to tight sandstones of the Mesaverde Group of the Piceance Basin of western Colorado. Starting in the 1970s, thousands...
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    the terrain. On top of this shale, there are three formations in the Mesaverde group which reflect the changes in depositional environment in the area over...
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    shale formations dating from the Late Cretaceous, which are of the Mesaverde Group. The canyon bottomlands were further eroded, exposing Menefee Shale...
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    and sandstone layers that grow thicker to the west are known as the Mesaverde Group. The Laramide orogeny continued in the Cenozoic up until the Eocene...
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  • A. ornatus was originally described from the Teapot Member of the Mesaverde Group of Wyoming, USA. The range of A. ornatus has since been found in the...
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    group is present around Elephant Butte Reservoir, in the Caballo Mountains, and under much of the Jornada del Muerto. It overlies the Mesaverde Group...
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    include a lower Cleary Coal Member and an upper Allison Member. The Mesaverde Group in the San Juan Basin records a marine regression-transgression sequence...
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  • coal field of western New Mexico. The beds were originally mapped as Mesaverde Group, but were found to be much lower in the stratigraphic column. The formation...
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    analysis and reservoir characterization of the tight gas sands in the Mesaverde Group, Greater River Basin, Wyoming; and Influence of syn-sedimentary faulting...
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    Juana Lopez Member contains fossil-rich calcareous shale beds. The Mesaverde Group was deposited as the Inner Cretaceous Seaway regressed to the northeast...
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    Sandstone, which is the oldest of the three formations that make up the Mesaverde Group which is common to the Mesa Verde region. The cliff-forming Point Lookout...
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  • unconformity. The youngest of these is the Tohatchi Formation of the Mesaverde Group. The Chuska Sandstone is in turn overlain by lava flows of the Navajo...
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    deposited in a beach and bar environment. The formation is part of the Mesaverde Group of the San Juan Basin, which records a regression-transgression sequence...
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    As of May 2019, tight gas from the Wasatch Formation and underlying Mesaverde Group has been produced more than 1.76 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas from...
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    305-336. Lawton, T. F. (1986). Fluvial systems of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group and Paleocene North Horn Formation, central Utah: A record of transition...
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  • Campanian to Maastrichtian (Edmontonian) geologic formation of the Mesaverde Group in Colorado. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been...
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    1992, Behaviour of hadrosaurs as interpreted from footprints in the “MesaverdeGroup (Campanian) of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming: Contributions to Geology...
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    and retreats of the coastline are recorded in formations such as the Mesaverde Group. Towards the end of the Cretaceous, shallow subduction of the Farallon...
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    expose Triassic Chinle Formation. Strata as young as the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group are found around the flanks of the uplift, particularly on the Defiance...
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