GEOLOGICAL FORMATION: mapped and explained.

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Precipice Sandstone

Australia

Thick-bedded, cross-bedded, pebbly quartzose sandstone, minor lithic sublabile sandstone, siltstone, mudstone.

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Tumblagooda sandstone

Australia

Fine- to medium-grained sandstones; minor conglomerate; red,commonly bioturbated siltstone towards the top of the unit. Located in Western Australia

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Wallumbilla Formation

Australia

marine grey mudstone and siltstone with minor interbeds of fine-grained glauconitic and calcareous sandstone, local thin micritic limestone beds and heavy mineral strandline accumulations; d

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Dancing Ledge

United Kingdom

Dancing Ledge is part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England

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Rhynie chert

United Kingdom

early Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil detail or completeness

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Eumeralla Formation

Australia

Volcanilithic sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, mud-clast conglomerate, with feldspar and quartz grains, and coal: fine to medium grained, consolidated, well-bedded, cross-bedded; braided stre

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Wonthaggi Formation

Australia

Lithic volcaniclastic sandstone, arkose, siltstone, minor conglomerate and coal; fluvial.

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Utica Shale

United States

rock layer of shale underneath the state of New York and in the subsurface in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario

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Ranquil Formation

Chile

Miocene and Pliocene sedimentary formation located in Arauco Province in south–central Chile, including outcrops in Mocha Island

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Urumaco Formation

Venezuela

geological formation in Venezuela, where some unusually large fossils have been found

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Purlawaugh Formation

Australia

Fine to medium grained lithic to labile sandstone thinly interbedded with siltstone, mudstone and thin coal seams. Abundant carbonaceous fragments, thin beds of flint clay.

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Evergreen Formation

Australia

Labile and sublabile, sandstone, carbonaceous mudstone, siltstone and minor coal; local oolitic ironstone.

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Broome Sandstone

Australia

Fine- to very coarse-grained sandstone; minor mudstone and conglomerate; deltaic

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Bungil Formation

Australia

geological formation in Australia. Glauconitic, labile to quartzose, siltstone, mudstone. Subdominant coarse-grained quartzose sandstone in some areas. Minor thin coal seams.

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Allaru Formation

Australia

primarily blue-grey mudstone (partly pyritic) and interbedded calcareous siltstone, cone-in-cone limestone and lesser sandstone

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El Salto Formation

Nicaragua

Early Pliocene geological formation in Managua Department, Nicaragua, exposed mainly near San Rafael del Sur and preserving a mysticete fossil at Mine K-11

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Miria Formation

Australia

Predominantly calcareous pelagic deposits: low-energy marine-shelf calcarenite and calcisiltite.

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Molteno Formation

South Africa

Triassic geological formation in the Stormberg Group in Lesotho and South Africa

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Ganigobis Formation

Namibia

Late Carboniferous to Early Permian geological formation of the Dwyka Group in Southern Africa

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Katberg Formation

South Africa

geological formation in the Beaufort Group of the Karoo Supergroup in South Africa

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Cenomanian Limestones

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Bronnyzja, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Senomanski vapniaky

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Kreminne, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Cenomanian Limestones

Ukraine

geological natural monument by Yaryshiv, Mohyliv-Podilskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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Leimitz formation

Germany

Place where fossils were discovered (near Leimitz, Hof (Saale), Bavaria, Germany).

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Teekloof Formation

South Africa

Late Permian geological formation that forms part of the Beaufort Group of South Africa

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Bandelier Tuff

United States

geologic formation exposed in and around the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico

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