Bright Angel Shale
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bright-angel-shale-161-2780603
title:
Bright Angel Shale
text:
The Bright Angel Shale is one of five geological formations that comprise the Cambrian Tonto Group. It and the other formations of the Tonto Group outcrop in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, and parts of northern Arizona, central Arizona, southeast California, southern Nevada, and southeast Utah. The Bright Angel Shale consists of locally fossiliferous, green and red-brown, micaceous, fissile shale (mudstone) and siltstone with local, thicker beds of brown to tan sandstone and limestone. It ranges in
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description:
Cambrian geologic formation found in the Southwestern United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Angel_Shale
date created:
2013-09-24T13:56:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T02:49:00Z
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