A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | View of mesa and spire on Highway 666, 10 miles North of Shiprock |
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| Description | Mesa Verde is a landform that extends south from Colorado into the San Juan Valley and northwestern New Mexico. At the mesa's edge, erosion has produced pinnacles, buttes and small isolated mesas. The slopes of these formations are Mancos Shale (Cretaceous) capped with sandstones of the Mesa Verde Group (also Cretaceous). |
| Chronostratigraphy | Cretaceous |
| Lithostratigraphy | Mancos Shale, Mesa Verde Group |
| Location | USA ▹ New Mexico ▹ San Juan. Near Shiprock. Near the Colorado border. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 1999. |
| Collection | E191030993F-28. |
| Key words | Mancos Shale, New Mexico, Mesa Verde Group, butte, mesa, pinnacle |
| Tech details | 217 KB. Vista. Canon EOS Rebel, 55mm, Kodak Elite Chrome 100 ASA. |
| GeoDIL number | 1750 |
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