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Contact between Tensleep Formation & Goose Egg Formation, east of Shell, Wyoming by Callan Bentley

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Callan Bentley Callan Bentley
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Date added
June 23, 2011
Date taken
June 23, 2011
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West of Shell, Wyoming, on route 14, there is a lovely exposure showing the tilted stratigraphic contact between the lower Tensleep Formation (purple; Pennsylvanian period) underneath Goose Egg Formation (orange/tan; Permian to Triassic in age). The contact dips to the west because it has been deformed during Laramide mountain-building (uplift of the Bighorn block, and downdropping of the Bighorn basin).

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