A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Morrison Formation, Highway 24, Utah, USA |
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| Description | The colorful Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) is composed of gray, green and maroon sandstones and mudstones laid down in lakes on swampy plains. This view, from Highway 24 east of Capitol Reef National Park, also shows some Entrada Sandstone (Jurassic) in the foreground. The Morrison Formation is known for the dinosaur bones it contains, and it has been a source of uranium in the past. |
| Chronostratigraphy | Jurassic |
| Lithostratigraphy | Morrison Fm. |
| Geologic province | San Rafael Swell |
| Location | USA ▹ Utah ▹ Wayne. Near Hanksville. View from Highway 24, several miles east of Capitol Reef National Park. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 1999. |
| Collection | E341112991E. |
| Key words | Morrison Formation, sandstone, siltstone, Fremont River, Utah |
| Tech details | 737 KB. Vista. Canon Eos Rebel, 55mm lens, Kodak Ektachrome Elite. |
| GeoDIL number | 104 |
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