Supai Group

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The Supai Group is a prominent sequence of red sandstone, siltstone, and shale rock layers that forms striking cliffs and slopes in many canyons and mesas across the Colorado Plateau.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chugwater Group 1
Supai Group canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic group
stratigraphic unit
color red
contains fossils
country United States of America
surface form: United States
depositionalEnvironment deltaic
fluvial
shallow marine
exposedIn Arizona
Colorado Plateau
surface form: Canyonlands region

Colorado
Grand Canyon National Park
surface form: Grand Canyon

New Mexico
Utah
forms buttes
cliffs
mesas
slopes
geologicAge Pennsylvanian
Permian
lithology sandstone
shale
siltstone
namedFor Supai
notableFor prominent red rock cliffs on the Colorado Plateau
overlies Redwall Limestone
partOf Colorado Plateau
region southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States
thickness hundreds of meters
underlies Hermit Formation

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sundance Formation overlies Supai Group
this entity surface form: Chugwater Group