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Copper Canyon Formation information


Copper Canyon Formation
Stratigraphic range: Neogene
TypeFormation
Location
RegionCalifornia
CountryUnited States

The Copper Canyon Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period.

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deposit is in sandstones of the Dakota Sandstone and Burro Canyon Formation. The primary copper mineral is chalcocite, which is thought to have been deposited...

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the Copper Canyon Formation around the same time. Footprints and fossils of camels, horses, and mammoths are in all three of these Pliocene formations. About...

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(11 km) to the east of the marker. Uranium associated with copper mineralization at the White Canyon district was identified in 1920, but production did not...

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the Colorado Plateau. Grand Canyon Association. ISBN 978-1934656037. Bryan, Susan Montoya (December 26, 2017). "Old copper mine is one of many sites in...

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periods in which porphyry deposit formation was concentrated or preferred. For copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits, formation is broadly concentrated in three...

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Group/Moreno Formation Cretaceous Chloropagus Formation Neogene Conglomerate Mesa Formation Permian Copper Canyon Formation Neogene Coso Formation Neogene...

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of the Unkar Group is also found in the Grand Canyon. The Mesoproterozoic formations in the Grand Canyon are overlain by the 850 million year old, Neoproterozoic...

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tons) of U3O8. Uranium was discovered in the Orphan copper mine near the south rim of the Grand Canyon in 1950. The mine has been private property since...

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20th century in ichnology

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Scrivener and Bottjer published a census of tracks from the Miocene Copper Canyon Formation of Death Valley National Monument, California. Most of these footprints...

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mere 100 m (look for the river image in the montage/main image). Gandikota canyon consists of sedimentary rocks, namely 'Gandikota Quartzite' in the Chitravati...

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access points, including the Peralta Trailhead, the most popular. Peralta Canyon, on the northeast side of Superstition Mountain, contains a popular trail...

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Knox Supergroup

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Upper Knox Group, overlying the Copper Ridge Dolomite and underlying the Longview-Kingsport-Mascot sequence. The formation was named by E. O. Ulrich in 1911...

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Divisadero, Chihuahua, a town on the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacífico (Copper Canyon railroad) Divisaderos, Sonora Divisadero Street, in San Francisco Divisadero...

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College of the Canyons

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Colleges and has campus locations in Valencia and Canyon Country. Local voters approved the formation of the college in 1967. It officially opened in 1969...

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with successive phases of intracontinental rifting (copper, graphite), spreading and the formation of passive continental margins. The overlying rocks...

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predominantly coarse-grained Tertiary age formations of sedimentary origin. The southern end of Bouquet Canyon features a large areas of artificial fill...

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Quartz monzonite

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Quartz monzonite porphyry is often associated with copper mineralization in the porphyry copper ore deposits. In the White Mountains and western highlands...

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The known human history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years, when the first evidence of human presence in the area is found. Native Americans...

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outgassing from sediments bound together by microbial mats. The Abo Formation was mined for copper at the Spanish Queen Mine in the Jemez Springs area. The ore...

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