Английская Википедия:Glorieta Sandstone
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The Glorieta Sandstone is a geologic formation in New Mexico. It preserves fossils characteristic of the Kungurian age of the Permian geology.
Description
The Glorietta Sandstone is a massive yellowish brown to light gray, cliff-forming, fine to medium grained, very mature quartzarenite sandstone that weathers to reddish brown.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn At the type section, about 33% of the formation is trough-crossbedded sandstone with beds up to Шаблон:Convert thick and with large foresets. Another 27% of the formation is wind-ripple laminated sandstone. Many beds are extremely well cemented.Шаблон:Sfn The formation is exposed in most of the flanking uplifts of the Rio Grande RiftШаблон:Sfn and extends in the subsurface to west Texas.Шаблон:Sfn It is particularly prominent in Glorieta Pass but extends west to the Jemez Mountains (where it pinches out in the central Nacimiento Mountains) and south to the Socorro area.Шаблон:Sfn
The Glorieta Sandstone is of Kungurian (upper Leonardian) ageШаблон:Sfn and forms a ledge at or near the top of the Permian section throughout central New Mexico. It rests conformably on the Yeso Group and is overlain either conformably by thin beds of the San Andres Formation or disconformably with Triassic beds. At the type section at Glorieta Pass, is interpreted as a dune field overlain by eolian sheet deposits.Шаблон:Sfn Further south, it shows cross stratification suggesting subaqueous deposition, except for local coastal eolian deposition.Шаблон:Sfn The presence of forams and herringbone crossbedding also suggests a shallow marine environment.Шаблон:Sfn
The Glorieta Sandstone likely correlates with the Coconino Sandstone of Arizona, from which it was separated by the Defiance Uplift.Шаблон:Sfn Detrital zircon geochronology suggests that both formations were derived from deflation of an arid transcontinental river system originating in the Appalachian-Ouachita orogen and Canadian Shield with some local sediment sources in the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. However, the Glorieta Sandstone is thinner, with a maximum thickness of less than Шаблон:Convert and dune height of Шаблон:Convert versus a thickness of Шаблон:Convert and dune height of Шаблон:Convert for the Coconino Sandstone. The Glorieta Sandstone was deposited by trade winds from the northeast while the Coconino Sandstone was deposited by onshore winds from the north and northwest. Tongues of the Glorieta Sandstone are found up to Шаблон:Convert southward into the San Andres Formation, and marine carbonate beds within the Glorieta Sandstone record repeated northward marine transgressions.Шаблон:Sfn
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Another view of the Glorieta Formation (upper white beds) at Glorieta Mesa.
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Road cut in the Glorieta Sandstone along I-25 near Bernal.
History of investigation
Keyes first named the formation in 1915,Шаблон:Sfn mistaking it for a local tongue of the Dakota Formation.Шаблон:Sfn It was long considered either the uppermost member of the Yeso Formation or the lowermost member of the San Andres Formation but was raised to formation rank in 1943.Шаблон:Sfn
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