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The Mesaverde Group is a Late Cretaceous stratigraphic group found in areas of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, in the Western United States. The group is a single regression - transgression sequence in its type location in the San Juan Basin , dividing the older marine Mancos Shale and younger Lewis Shale deposited in the Western ...
The first occupants of the Mesa Verde region, which spans from southeastern Utah to northwestern New Mexico, were nomadic Paleo-Indians who arrived in the area c. 9500 BC. [4] They followed herds of big game and camped near rivers and streams, many of which dried up as the glaciers that once covered parts of the San Juan Mountains receded.
Glen Canyon Group/Kayenta Formation: Jurassic: Glen Canyon Group/Moenave Formation: Jurassic, Triassic: Glen Canyon Group/Navajo Sandstone: Jurassic: Glen Canyon Group/Navajo Sandstone Group/Nugget Formation: Jurassic: Glen Canyon Group/Wingate Formation: Triassic: Glen Canyon Group/Wingate Sandstone: Triassic: Great Blue Limestone ...
Stratigraphy of the Mesaverde Group in the Central and Eastern Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah By HENRY W. ROEHLER: Author: Henry W. Roehler:
Only small remnants of the Mesaverde Group are found, capping a few mesas in the park's eastern section. Near the end of the Cretaceous period, a mountain-building event called the Laramide orogeny started to compact and uplift the region, forming the Rocky Mountains and creating monoclines such as the Waterpocket Fold in the park.
The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States. The Mancos Shale was first described by Cross and Purington in 1899 [ 1 ] and was named for exposures near the town of Mancos, Colorado .
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Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.Cliff Canyon, as seen from the Cliff Palace. Mesa Verde mug, made in 13th century, MVNP museum collections. The Mesa Verde Region is a portion of the Colorado Plateau in the United States that extends through parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.