The Temple-Cap & Page Sandstones

(MIDDLE JURASSIC)

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Streams carrying red mud flooded the Navajo Desert for a brief time, beveling the dune terrain to a gently undulating surface and depositing a few meters of clay and silt. Then desert conditions gradually resumed for a short time. These events are recorded by the caprock at the tops of the East Temple and West Temple and elsewhere in the area.

This influx of water caused the underlying Navajo sand (not yet cemented with calcite) to slump. Silica-cemented fracture and slump structures are ubiquitous in the uppermost Navajo throughout the County.


SOURCE
-from Geology of Eastern Iron County, Utah by Herbert E. Gregory