Blue Mesa Member of Chinle Formation
| Usage of Geologic Unit Name: Blue Mesa Member of Chinle Formation (AZ, NM) |
| Age: Triassic, Late |
| Geologic Province: Black Mesa basin San Juan basin |
| Areal Extent: NM(nw) AZ(ne) |
| Unit Name History: Named Sonsela Sandstone Bed of Petrified Forest Member of Chinle Formation (Akers and others, 1958). Areal limits; Overview (Stewart and others, 1972). Revised stratigraphic description in Petrified Forest National Park area, Arizona (Woody, 2006) |
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References Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Revisted Upper Triassic stratgraphy of the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A.: in Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., editors, Albuerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, v. 21, p 1-35. Woody, D. T., 2006, Revised stratigraph of the lower Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: in A Century of Research at Petrified Forest National Park: Geology and Paleontology: Parker, W. G., Ash, S. R., and Irmis, R. B., editors, Flagstaff, Arizona: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin no. 62, p. 17-45. |
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