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Nugget Sandstone

Geologic Formation in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Nugget Sandstone is a Late Triassic to Early Jurassic geologic formation that outcrops in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, western United States.

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Nugget Sandstone near Red Fleet Reservoir, Uintah County, Utah. Uniform grain size and these large cross-stratification are indicative of an ancient sand dune.
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Nugget Sandstone showing a bounding surface between two sets of ancient sand dunes, where wind scour eroded the top of the lower dune before the second dune advanced over it. Red Fleet Reservoir, Uintah County, Utah.
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Eubrontes track in the Nugget Sandstone, Red Fleet State Park, Uintah County, Utah.

In Wyoming, it is composed of a lower hematite-stained siltstone and thin-bedded sandstone. The upper part is a salmon-pink and light-gray, fine- to medium-grained cliff-forming sandstone that exhibits massive bedding to large scale cross-beds of dunes. Thickness ranges up to 86.9 m (285 feet).[1]

Fossil theropod tracks have been reported from the formation.[2]

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Intermediate theropod, sphenosuchian, drepanosaurid and sphenodontian remains are known.[3]

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