• Spires of Cedar Mesa sandstone in Chesler Park (Needles District)

    Canyonlands

    National Park Utah

Green River Formation

This layer does not occur in Canyonlands.

Deposited
Early Tertiary Period (1.6 to 66 million years ago)

Depositional Environment
Lakes

Appearance
Continuous grey/brown slopes of shale

Examples
Uinta Basin in north-central Utah.

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Common Raven

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