NOTES ON CANADIAN STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY. I

Second Day: Early and Middle Triassic Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Correlation in Northeastern Arizona

Today’s trip traverses a nearly east-west swath of the southern Colorado Plateau in northeatern Arizona (Fig. 2.1), where the low and barren topography is developed in Permian and Triassic sedimentary rocks. Here, our focus is on the Lower-Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation. In northern Arizona, east of Flagstaff, the Moenkopi section (Fig. 2.2) is a relatively thin (< 150 m thick) and almost e...

Revised Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Western Beaver Divide, Fremont County, Wyoming

Emry, Robert J. Revised Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Western Beaver Divide, Fremont County, Wyoming. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, number 25, 20 pages, 6 figures, 1975.•In the western Beaver Divide area in west-central Wyoming, a lens of coarse Tertiary volcanic conglomerate and tuff disconfqrmably overlies Uintan rocks of the Wagon Bed Formation. The coarse volcan...

stratigraphy, paleontology and paleoecology characteristics of stars valley deposits in qeshm island

stars valley is one of the tourism areas in the qeshm island and is located at the southwest of qeshm city, south eastern corner of the island. sediments forming this unique landscape are not completely lithified and is composed of marl and marly limestone which is formed by erosional and weathering processes. deposits of stars valley contain diverse assemblages of echinoids, bivalves, gastropo...

Notes on Sandflies. Part I

I. Notes on Structured Programming

These notes have the status of "Letters written to myself": I wrote them down because, without doing so, I found myself repeating the same arguments over and over again. When reading what I had written, I was not always too satisfied. For one thing, I felt that they suffered from a marked verbosity. Yet I do not try to condense them (now), firstly because that would introduce another delay and ...