The Muav Limestone is a Cambrian geologic formation within the 5-member Tonto Group. It is a thin-bedded, gray, medium to fine-grained, mottled dolomite; coarse- to medium-grained, …

Supai Group's rock layers as seen along Hermit Trail. The rocks of the Supai Group are red sandstones and siltstones, deposited 315-285 million years ago during the Paleozoic Era- …

The Muav is a mottled, nodular, shaly, yellowish-gray limestone. In the eastern Canyon it is a yellowish cliff in the lower part, a covered slope in the middle, and a ledgy cliff, often stained …

The name Muav Limestone of Middle Cambrian age geographically extended northward from AZ into the subsurface of Kane Co, UT, Plateau sedimentary province, where it overlies the …

2022年8月10日 · The Cambrian Muav Formation is a 42–252 m (136–827 ft) thick cliff-forming unit that outcrops towards the top of the Tonto Group along ~500 km of the walls of Grand …

The Tonto sandstone was officially renamed the Tapeats Sandstone and the Tonto shale was officially renamed the Bright Angel Shale. The Marbled limestone was later officially renamed …

Muav Canyon This branch of Shinumo Canyon through which White Creek flows is named Muav Canyon and is the geologic namesite for the Muav limestone formation. There is a spring east …

Even farther from shore, organic lime muds precipitate from sea water, forming limestone, the third facies of this single sea bottom. The Tonto Group consists of all three of these facies: …

The Redwall (and underlying Muav Limestone) are the chief cave-forming units of the Canyon, with small to large entrances visible from nearly any rim viewpoint. The Redwall Limestone …

2011年1月7日 · Three unnamed slope-forming siltstone and shale units of Bright Angel Shale lithology are intertongued between cliff-forming members of Muav Limestone. These unnamed …