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Title	Jurassic history and stratigraphy of Colorado
Publication Type	thesis
School or College	College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department	Geology
Author	Holmes, Clifford N.
Date	1960
Description	At the beginning of the Jurassic period western Colorado was a relatively low-lying, flat plain with the Ancestral Rockies reduced to low relief The Chino formation, on which the rocks of the Glen Canyon group rest, thins gradually from west to east and disappears completely before reaching the axes of the ancestral Uncompahgre and Colorado Range positive elements 0 The first rocks deposited, assigned to the Glen Canyon group, consist of the Wingate sandstone, Kayenta formation and Navajo sandstone, in ascending order. These formations were deposited in an immense desert basin. The Wingate sandstone pinches out rapidly within a belt that cuts diagonally across the western edge of the Uncompahgre high before reaching the axis of the positive element. No Wingate is known in or east of the central Colorado basin. The Kayenta formation has approximately the same distribution as the Wingate sandstone, but of flaps its outer boundaries. The Navajo and its equivalent the Nugget extend southeastward across northwestern Colorado into the central Colorado basin as far as Rifle Rocks of the San Rafael group are also present in Colorado although their marine origin is less evident here than in central Utah. The Carmel formation extends eastward only a few miles into Colorado before it disappears 0 The widespread Entrada sandstone transgresses all older formations before pinching out against the Ancestral Rockies in southwestern and north central Colorado In these areas the basal part of the Entrada contains fragments of igneous and metamorphic rocks where it rests on the Precambrian roc􁪽s of the positive elements. The Entrada is correlative with local units such as the Garo sandstone, Exeter sandstone, Dr. Bond sandstone, and the lower Stance The marine Curtis formation covers northwestern Colorado and extends southeastward in a fairly well-defined lobe as far as Aspen in the Central Basin Thin-bedded sandstone and shale beds that may correlate with the marine Curtis formation extend southward from Wyoming along the Front Range to the vicinity of Boulder. Th􁪽se have not yielded diagnostic fossils A gypsum deposit over 200 feet thick was formed in a restricted part of the Curtis sea, both to the southeast of the Colorado uplift and to the southwest of the Uncompahgre uplift In southwestern Colorado the gypsum deposit passes laterally into the Bilk Creek sandstone member of the Wanaka formation and the Moab tongue of the Entrada sandstone to the west. The Wanaka formation and the Tidily limestone are confined to the gypsum basin southwest of the Uncompahgre uplift The Wanaka formation passes laterally into the typical Summerville formation of western Colorado.
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Publisher	University of Utah
Dissertation Name	Doctor of Philosophy
Language	eng
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OCR Text	Show MAIN ELK CREEK SECTION (Measured by Chinle formation: Garfield County, Colorado T. 5 5., R. 91 w. Section 15 August, 1949 C. N. Holmes & T. E. Mullens) (continued) Sandstone; pale reddish brown, very fine-grained to siltstone, rubbly slope 30.2 113.0 Siltstone to very fine sandstone; moderate reddish brown, scattered mica flecks •••••••••••••••••• 20.0 82.8 3.8 62.8 59.0 59.0 •••••••••••••••••••• Limy sandstone; greenish gray, (5G 6/1) finegrained, weathers very light gray Siltstone; dark reddish brown, scattered ver,y quartz grains, slope partially covered ••••••••••••• fine •••••••• TENDERFOOT MESA SECTION Mesa T. 51 County, Colorado N., R. 18 W. Sections 17 and 20 (Measured by August, 1948 Holnies) Clifford N. Chinle formation: Siltstone; brick red, occasional coarse quartz grains, rounded weathering, 21• white very fine Scattered sandstone to siltstone at contact. flecks of fine mica. Sample #C-lO scattered brick very fine Siltstone; red, 10.0 215.7 60.1 205.7 7.8 145.6 29.1 137.8 29.0 31.9 108.7 79.7 ••••• 4.1 47.8 ••••• 26.6 43.7 ••••• 2.5 17.1 ••••• 14.p 14.6 •••••••••••• quartz rubbly well-fractured, grains, thin-bedded, slope Siltstone; brick red, scattered very fine quartz grains; and mica flecks, ledge, silty shale partings forming rough weathered surface. •••••••.••••••.•••••••.•.••• •••.••••••••• Sample #C-l1 Siltstone; brick red, rubbly well-fractured slope, partially covered Siltstone; brick red, very fine, mica flecks, shaly. Srumple #C-12 @ 134-136' Siltstone; brick red, rubbly, well-fractured Conglomerate; siltstone concretions 1"'-1/1611 n mainly about 1/4 forms ledge. Clay-shale lenticules, calcite fillings 1/16n cracks Siltstone; mottled red and white, occasional coarse grains, calcite veinlts, scattered ••••••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••• ' •••••••••••••••••.••• •••••••• •••••••••••••••• ••••••• mica flecks ••••••••••.••••••••• coarse o •• • •••• • • . sand and pebble occasional 1ft-2ft Conglomerate; purplish-red, size, rounded to sub-llnguJ;ar, shale and siltstone pellets. Sample #C-13 covered Siltstone; shaly, brownish-red, partly
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