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Stratigraphy of
Grand Junction Colorado
Period
 Formation / Members  Thick-  ness Rock Type

QUAT

Alluvium & colluvium

0-200

  

Glacial, pediment, & land slide deposits

0-200

  

MIOCENE

Basalt flows of Grand Mesa

0-1000

  

EOCENE

Uinta Formation

400 +

  

Green River Fm

Parachute Creek Member

300-1100

  

Douglas Creek Member

300-700

  

Garden Gulch M

100-300

  

PALEOCENE

Wasateh Formation

200-2000

  

CRET

Hunter Canyon Formation

Ohio Creek Cg

0-100

  

Main Body

1100

  

Mount Garfield Fm

Upper part

600

  

Upper Ss

0-150

  

Anchor Mine Tongue

0-200

  

Lower Ss

0-180

  

Mancos Shale

4000

  

Dakota Sandstone

150

  

Burro Canyon Fm

50-120

  

JURASSIC

Morrison Fm

Brushy Basin Mbr

260-340

  

Salt Wash Mbr

190-310

  

Tidwell Member

10-100

  

Wanakah Formation

20-50

  

Entrada Sandstone

60-200

  

Kayenta Formation

0-130

  

Wingate Sandstone

210-370

  

TRIASSIC

Chinle Formation

80-120

  

pC (PROT)

Vernal Mesa-type quartz monzonite; gneiss and schist

NULL

  

Data Sources:
*Still Gathering/Under Construction*
USGS Special Publications by Various Authors
Roadside Geology of Utah by Halka Chronic
Field Guide: Northern Colorado Plateau by Keith Rigby
Geologic History of Utah by Lehi Hintze- Purchase Information





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