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Geologic unconformity

Painted Desert, part of Petrified Forest National Park.

 

A basalt cap overlays the Bidahochi formation above the Chinle formation. An estimated 305 meter layer appears to have been eroded away between the two formations.

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Uploaded on January 6, 2024
Taken on March 6, 2007