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Group of geologic formations in the western United States
Mesaverde Group
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous
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Mesaverde Group beds in the Book Cliffs near Helper, Utah.
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Underlies
Lewis Shale, Meeteetse Formation, Datil Group (regionally)
The Mesaverde Formation was first described by W.H.Holmes in 1877 during the Hayden Survey. Holmes described the formation in the northern San Juan Basin...
surrounded by sandstone escarpments that are part of the MesaverdeGroup. Above the MesaverdeGroup escarpments are incised valleys that contain the Lewis...
the canyon. Geologically the canyon walls are stairstep cliffs of MesaverdeGroup, shoreline sands deposited during the Cretaceous. The sedimentary rock...
where Kmt and Kmf are the Tununk and Ferron Sandstone members of the Mancos Shale, Km. Kmv is the MesaverdeGroup, and Tkn is the North Horn Formation...
Formations. These layers in turn rest on a Cretaceous layer known as the MesaverdeGroup that forms a cliff about halfway up the side of the mesa. The lowest...
target of gas development has been the Williams Fork Formation of the MesaverdeGroup, of Cretaceous age. The Williams Fork is a several-thousand-foot thick...
the Dakota, depositing the Mancos Shale. Only small remnants of the MesaverdeGroup are found, capping a few mesas in the park's eastern section. Near...
Stratigraphically the Mancos Shale fills the interval between the Dakota and the MesaverdeGroup. The lower marine Mancos Shale conformably intertongues with terrestrial...
the terrain. On top of this shale, there are three formations in the Mesaverdegroup which reflect the changes in depositional environment in the area over...
coal field of western New Mexico. The beds were originally mapped as MesaverdeGroup, but were found to be much lower in the stratigraphic column. The formation...
late 1970s by its use in gas wells drilled to tight sandstones of the MesaverdeGroup of the Piceance Basin of western Colorado. Starting in the 1970s, thousands...
group is present around Elephant Butte Reservoir, in the Caballo Mountains, and under much of the Jornada del Muerto. It overlies the MesaverdeGroup...
shale formations dating from the Late Cretaceous, which are of the MesaverdeGroup. The canyon bottomlands were further eroded, exposing Menefee Shale...
and sandstone layers that grow thicker to the west are known as the MesaverdeGroup. The Laramide orogeny continued in the Cenozoic up until the Eocene...
Juana Lopez Member contains fossil-rich calcareous shale beds. The MesaverdeGroup was deposited as the Inner Cretaceous Seaway regressed to the northeast...
include a lower Cleary Coal Member and an upper Allison Member. The MesaverdeGroup in the San Juan Basin records a marine regression-transgression sequence...
analysis and reservoir characterization of the tight gas sands in the MesaverdeGroup, Greater River Basin, Wyoming; and Influence of syn-sedimentary faulting...
unconformity. The youngest of these is the Tohatchi Formation of the MesaverdeGroup. The Chuska Sandstone is in turn overlain by lava flows of the Navajo...
As of May 2019, tight gas from the Wasatch Formation and underlying MesaverdeGroup has been produced more than 1.76 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas from...
Campanian to Maastrichtian (Edmontonian) geologic formation of the MesaverdeGroup in Colorado. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been...
small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 495...
the Mancos Shale (Pescado Tongue). Allen and Balk raised the Mesaverde Formation to group rank in 1954, which also raised the Gallup Sandstone to formation...
A. ornatus was originally described from the Teapot Member of the MesaverdeGroup of Wyoming, USA. The range of A. ornatus has since been found in the...
305-336. Lawton, T. F. (1986). Fluvial systems of the Upper Cretaceous MesaverdeGroup and Paleocene North Horn Formation, central Utah: A record of transition...
expose Triassic Chinle Formation. Strata as young as the Cretaceous MesaverdeGroup are found around the flanks of the uplift, particularly on the Defiance...
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