Published through the yankee Geophysical Union as a part of the sphere journey Guidebooks sequence, quantity 124.
The San Juan River has carved majestic canyons via a thick series of marine sedimentary rocks of Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) age in southeastern Utah. The superimposed canyons have been minimize around the large Monument Upwarp in past due Tertiary to fresh instances, exposing a common pass element of the cyclic strata, together with algal bioherms, in unexcelled beauty. inner most and oldest rocks uncovered are evaporites and carbonates of the anomaly Formation (Middle Pennsylvanian) alongside the southwestern shelf of the anomaly evaporite basin. the anomaly is a pull-apart basin that sagged into lifestyles in the course of the Ancestral Rockies orogeny, the yankee counterpart of the Hercynian orogeny of Eurasia. higher canyon partitions are composed of carbonate and clastic cycles of the overdue Pennsylvanian Honaker path Formation.
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