The Muav Limestone is a Cambrian geologic formation within the 5-member Tonto Group. It is a thin-bedded, gray, medium to fine-grained, mottled dolomite;...

sequence of 'redbeds', the cliff-forming Redwall Limestone sits above highly eroded slopes of Muav Limestone and Bright Angel Shale. These slopes are deposited...

Muav Limestone (or Formation), and Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. Historically, it included only the Tapeats Sandstone, Bright Angel Shale, and Muav Limestone...

coloration of the Bright Angel. Muav Limestone averages 505 million years old and is made of gray, thin-bedded limestone that was deposited farther offshore...

that rise from the Tonto Platform up to cliffs formed by limestones of the overlying Muav Limestone and dolomites of the Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. In...

slopes that rise from the Tonto Platform to cliffs formed by limestones of the Muav Limestone and dolomites of the Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. In 1875...

between the top of the Muav Limestone and the base of either the Devonian Temple Butte Formation or Mississippian Redwall Limestone. Because of unidentified...

known as the Red Wall Muav aquifer, is a karst aquifer. It involves an area of substantial fracturing through the Redwall Limestone, Temple Butte Formation...

locally derived from either the underlying Temple Butte Formation or Muav Limestone. In the eastern Grand Canyon, the Temple Butte Formation consists of...

Kaibab Limestone Toroweap Formation Coconino Sandstone Hermit Shale Supai Group Surprise Canyon Formation Redwall Limestone Temple Butte Limestone Muav Limestone...

The Kaibab Limestone is a resistant cliff-forming, Permian geologic formation that crops out across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, southern Utah...

switchbacks to descend the 1,200 feet (370 m) through the Redwall Limestone, Muav Limestone, and Bright Angel Shale to the junction with the Tonto Trail,...

Angel Shale and Muav Limestone, Martin Formation, Redwall Limestone, Supai Group, Coconino Sandstone, Toroweap Formation, and Kaibab Limestone. The last three...

above photo. At the base of the large, red Redwall Limestone cliff, is the short cliff of Muav Limestone. The slope-forming, soft dull greenish Bright Angel...

cliff-erosion-remnants of Redwall Limestone, (very vertical and very narrow, ~north-south aligned), upon a platform of Muav Limestone; as unit three of the 3-member...

Interestingly the Redwall Limestone also sits on a short cliff-section of the Muav Limestone, (forming a platform); thus the Redwall-Muav Limestones are a double-platform...

Mountains, and China Mountain. Calcareous shale, mudstone, and black limestones are the most common lithologies present within the unit. The member was...

Redwall Limestone, (as in the connected Tower of Set southwards). The base of the Redwall has a short, but resistant cliff of (3rd-unit) Muav Limestone. Below...

upper surface of the Redwall Limestone, on Cambrian rock units below. Another upper platform of the cliff-forming Muav Limestone, underlies the Redwall. (It...

mudstone, sandstone, shale Type of rock Supai Group, Redwall Limestone, Muav Limestone, Bright Angel Shale Climbing First ascent September 3, 1961 Harvey...

Reeside characterized and named the Rock Canyon Conglomerate, Virgin Limestone, and Shnabkaib Shale members in 1921. Salt Creek (later replaced by Wupatki...

Jurassic Mountain Springs Formation Devonian Muav Limestone Cambrian Muddy Creek Formation Neogene Mural Limestone Cretaceous Naco Formation Pennsylvanian...

and conglomerate beds alternating with reddish mudstone or clay-rich limestone. Further west, the unit shows great lithological diversity, and can be...

the Redwall Limestone, (a cliff-former, with massive cliffs in East Grand Canyon). Below the Redwall, is a short cliff of Muav Limestone, (but also a...

darker geologic unit, between the brighter colored units of the Kaibab Limestone above, and Coconino Sandstone below. It is a prominent unit in Grand Canyon...

Supai Group sits on the cliff-former (and platform-former) of the Redwall Limestone. For Wallace Butte, geologically it is a cliff and slope-former remainder...

debris upon the Redwall. Below the Redwall Limestone are members of the Cambrian Tonto Group, the Muav Limestone and the slopes of the Bright Angel Shale...

resistant cliff at the base of the massive cliffs of the Redwall Limestone, the Muav Limestone. Sumner Butte is a notable 5,126-foot-elevation geographical...

inconspicuous lenses that fill paleovalleys cut into the underlying Muav Limestone. Within these paleovalleys, it at most, is only about 100 feet (30 m)...

Redwall, on another platform, the Muav Limestone. The Surprise Canyon Formation is on top; the Temple Butte Limestone is below. The prominence of The Howlands...