The Moenkopi Formation is a geological formation that is spread across the U.S. states of New Mexico, northern Arizona, Nevada, southeastern California...

and Moenkopi formations, streams and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations to the large deserts of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and...

than they were previously. In the Capitol Reef area the resulting Moenkopi Formation is divided into four members (from oldest to youngest): Black Dragon...

Mud built up in tidal flats to become the mudstone of Moenkopi Formation. Examples of this formation, some that still show fossilized ripple marks and mudcracks...

710 ft). Typically, the Chinle rests unconformably on the Moenkopi Formation. The Chinle Formation was probably mostly deposited in the Norian stage, according...

greater Moenkopi Formation. It was recently elevated to formation rank, as the Sinbad Formation, and referred to the Thaynes Group. The Sinbad Formation is...

contact of the Kaibab Limestone (Harrisburg Member) with the overlying Moenkopi Formation is an erosional unconformity and disconformity. Within northwestern...

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from...

million years ago). Arizonasaurus is found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. A fairly complete skeleton was found in 2002...

The formation overlies the Hermosa Group and is in turn overlain by either the Dolores Formation (near its type area) or the Moenkopi Formation (further...

Utah. The Shinarump Conglomerate there is laid upon units of the Moenkopi Formation and remain as resistant caprocks preserving the vertical cliffs of...

includes exposed rock from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras, with Moenkopi Formation red sandstone having once been quarried in the city; many of the historic...

Schoch (2024). So & Mann (2024) revise temnospondyl fossils from the Moenkopi Formation (Arizona, United States), and report evidence of the presence of a...

bed, member, formation, group and supergroup. Formal names of lithostratigraphic units are assigned by geological surveys. Units of formation or higher rank...

of the Moenkopi Group and underlies the Shnabkaib Member of the Moenkopi Group. More recently, the Virgin Formation is interpreted as a formation of the...

Shale, the middle is de Chelly Sandstone, and the top layer is the Moenkopi Formation, capped by Shinarump Conglomerate. West Mitten Butte, East Mitten...

with the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation based on the finding of Eocyclotosaurus in the formation. The formation also contains the trace fossil...

rim Toroweap Formation (limestone formed 255 million years ago) Kaibab Formation (dolostone formed 250 million years ago) Moenkopi Formation (mudstone formed...

Cutler Formation. Overlying these are the Triassic Moenkopi Formation (which is bounded top and bottom by unconformities), the Chinle Formation, the cliff-forming...

Moenkopi formations Streams, ponds, and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations The vast desert of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations The...

at Depot Beach, New South Wales Rainbow Basin Syncline in the Barstow Formation near Barstow, California. Folded strata. Outcrop of Upper Ordovician limestone...

(Nevada, US) Grès à Voltzia (France) Guanling Formation (Guizhou and Yunnan, China) Moenkopi Formation (Holbrook and Anton Chico members) (SW US) Lower...

Chelly Sandstone, and the top layer is the Moenkopi Formation capped by Shinarump Conglomerate. Major rock formations include West and East Mitten Buttes, Merrick...

Canyon Formation Cretaceous Mesaverde Group/Menefee Formation Cretaceous Mesilla Valley Formation Cretaceous Mesilla Valley Shale Cretaceous Moenkopi Formation...

000-foot (300 m)-thick Moenkopi Formation. The formation is made from sandstone and shale with gypsum layers in between. Moenkopi outcrops are found along...

Chinle Formation Moenkopi Formation Kaibab Limestone Toroweap Formation Coconino Sandstone Hermit Shale Supai Group Surprise Canyon Formation Redwall Limestone...

LVF-defining index taxa. For example, the Ermaying Formation of China is correlated with the Moenkopi Formation of the United States via a tenuous (and likely...

stratum is cliff-forming De Chelly Sandstone, and the upper layer is Moenkopi Formation capped by Shinarump Conglomerate. The rock ranges in age from Permian...

Plateau that caused the regional elevation to intersect the Chinle and Moenkopi Formations, deposited in the Triassic about 208–245 million years ago. This...

if inclusions (or clasts) are found in a formation, then the inclusions must be older than the formation that contains them. For example, in sedimentary...