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Colorado River Raft Tour - Lower Carbon Canyon

Detailed Description

~ Mile 64.5: View along Lower Carbon Canyon. Rock in the lower part of the canyon consists of the Dox Formation, the youngest formation of the Middle Proterozoic Unkar Group. The Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone overlies the Dox Formation along the Great Unconformity (Potochnik and Reynolds, 1990).

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Public Domain.