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GC07 SouthKaibab 3923

Very hard, reddish purple Shinumo Quartzite near the "angular unconformity."

 

Abbott & Cook write: "You cross from the brown sandstones and thin, green mudstones belonging to the Tapeats onto extremely hard, reddish purple Shinumo Quartzite. With a single footfall, you step 550 million years back in time! This amazing gap in the rock record is marked by an angular unconformity..."

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Uploaded on March 24, 2007
Taken on March 12, 2007