Stratigraphic range: Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian) 331–323 Ma
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Pattie Butte-(Newton Butte), The ridgeline, north sits on Redwall Limestone 'platform'–(2-places, photo-bottom-left, top of red Redwall cliff), and topped by 2nd-platform of Surprise Canyon Formation.
Type
Formation
Underlies
Watahomigi Formation, basal member of Supai Group
Overlies
Redwall Limestone
Thickness
0–122 m (0–400 ft)
Lithology
Primary
sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, siltstone
Location
Region
southwest Colorado Plateau, Arizona-(northern)
Country
United States-(Southwestern United States)
Extent
Grand Canyon
Type section
Named for
Surprise Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park
Named by
George H. Billingsley and Stanley S. Beus[2]
The Surprise Canyon Formation is a geologic formation that consists of clastic and calcareous sedimentary rocks that fill paleovalleys and paleokarst of Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian) age in Grand Canyon. These strata outcrop as isolated, lens-shaped exposures of rocks that fill erosional valleys and locally karsted topography and caves developed in the top of the Redwall Limestone. The Surprise Canyon Formation and associated unconformities represent a significant period of geologic time between the deposition of the Redwall Limestone and the overlying Supai Group.[1][2][3]
^ abHodnett, J.P.M. and Elliott, D.K., 2018. Carboniferous chondrichthyan assemblages from the Surprise Canyon and Watahomigi formations (latest Mississippian–Early Pennsylvanian) of the western Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona.Journal of Paleontology, 92(S77), pp. 1–33.
^ abBillingsley, G.H., and Beus, S.S., 1985, The Surprise Canyon Formation—an upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian (?) rock unit in the Grand Canyon, Arizona.Stratigraphic Notes, 1984. U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, no. 1605-A, pp. 27–33.
^Beus, S.S. and Morales, M., 2003. Redwall Limestone and Surprise Canyon Formation, Grand Canyon.Geology, 2, pp. 115–135.
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Arizona-(northern)
United States-(Southwestern United States)