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The Moenkopi Formation is a geological formation that is spread across the U.S. states of New Mexico, northern Arizona, Nevada, southeastern California, eastern Utah and western Colorado. This unit is considered to be a group in Arizona.
Moenkopi (Hopi: Mùnqapi, Navajo: Oozéí Hayázhí) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to the southeast side of Tuba City off U.S. Route 160. The population was 964 at the 2010 census .
Typically, the Chinle rests unconformably on the Moenkopi Formation. The Chinle Formation was probably mostly deposited in the Norian stage, according to a plethora of chronological techniques. It is a thick and fossiliferous formation with numerous named members (subunits) throughout its area of deposition.
From top to bottom: Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone. Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah.
The buttes are made of three principal rock layers. The lowest layer is Organ Rock Shale, the middle is de Chelly Sandstone, and the top layer is the Moenkopi Formation, capped by Shinarump Conglomerate.
Moenkopi Formation. A stenaulorhynchine. Beesiiwo [6] B. cooowuse. Carnian US Popo Agie Formation. A hyperodapedontine previously referred to Hyperodapedon. Brasinorhynchus. B. mariantensis. Ladinian Brazil. Santa Maria Formation. A stenaulorhynchine, previously known as the "Mariante Rhynchosaur". Bentonyx. B. sidensis. late Anisian UK
The Hopi village of Moenkopi lies directly to its southeast. A minority of Hopi also live in Tuba City; the majority are Navajo. European Americans associated with the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named the town in honor of chief Tuuvi, a Hopi man from Oraibi. He converted to the Mormon faith and allowed their migrants to ...
Moenkopia (meaning "for Moenkopi") is an extinct genus of prehistoric sarcopterygians from the Coelacanthidae [1] found in the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.The type, and only species, M. wellesi, was named in 1961 in honour of Samuel Paul Welles. [2]