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The Thousand Pockets Tongue of the Page Sandstone and gypsiferous member of the Carmel Formation in Averett Canyon, Kane County, Utah. circa 1975.

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Date Taken
1975

Summary

Album caption: The Thousand Pockets Tongue of the Page Sandstone (Jptp) and gypsiferous member of the Carmel Formation (Jcg) in Averett Canyon about 9 km southwest of Cannonville, Utah. The Thousamd Pockets is grayish orange and forms the light-colored slop above the red slopes of the banded member of the Carmel (Jcb). The gypsiferous member consists of a cliff-forming white gypsum bed about 10 m thick overlain by a platy slope-forming grayish-yellow-green unit of interbedded mudstone and gypsum about 3.7 m thick. A thin limestone marker bed (ls) capping the ridge is included in the upper member of the Carmel (Jcau), rather than with the gypsiferous member as had been done by previous workers. The locality is about 1.1 km northwest [...]

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Peterson, F.

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