THE DYNAMIC EARTH: A BLOG ABOUT GEOLOGY AND THE EARTH SCIENCES

Monday, October 17, 2011

Red Rocks of the Cathedral Bluffs Member

Just a quick post, to get my bloggin' legs back after fall field work/GSA madness!  Here's photographic PROOF that not all red rocks in Wyoming are from the triassic; these are from the Eocene strata of the alluvial/fluvial Cathedral Bluffs, in SW Wyoming.  Behold!


Take a look at the variably expressed soil forming processes preserved in the stratigraphic record, as well as the subtle channelform!  Nifty, huh!?!

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