Unkar Group
The Unkar Group is a sequence of strata of Proterozoic age that are subdivided into five geologic formations and exposed within the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. It is about 1,600 to 2,200 m (5,200 to 7,200 ft) thick and composed, in ascending order, of the Bass Formation, Hakatai Shale, Shinumo Quartzite, Dox Formation, and Cardenas Basalt. It accumulated approximately between 1250 and 1104 Ma (1,104 million years ago, 1.1 billion). In ascending order, the Unkar Group is overlain by the Nankoweap Formation, about 113 to 150 m (371 to 492 ft) thick; the Chuar Group, about 1,900 m (6,200 ft) thick; and the Sixtymile Formation, about 60 m (200 ft) thick. The Nankoweap and Sixtymile formations together with the Chuar and Unkar groups comprise the Grand Canyon Supergroup.
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Unkar Group
The Unkar Group is a sequence of strata of Proterozoic age that are subdivided into five geologic formations and exposed within the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. It is about 1,600 to 2,200 m (5,200 to 7,200 ft) thick and composed, in ascending order, of the Bass Formation, Hakatai Shale, Shinumo Quartzite, Dox Formation, and Cardenas Basalt. It accumulated approximately between 1250 and 1104 Ma (1,104 million years ago, 1.1 billion). In ascending order, the Unkar Group is overlain by the Nankoweap Formation, about 113 to 150 m (371 to 492 ft) thick; the Chuar Group, about 1,900 m (6,200 ft) thick; and the Sixtymile Formation, about 60 m (200 ft) thick. The Nankoweap and Sixtymile formations together with the Chuar and Unkar groups comprise the Grand Canyon Supergroup.
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The Unkar Group is a sequence ...... y tilted at angles of 10°-30°.
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35,860,386
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729,364,501
age
Meso-Proterozoic, between 1,254 and 1,100 Ma
area
Arizona, east Grand Canyon, Lava Butte region, on Colorado River, near Lipan Point
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Reddish Dox Formation below Cardenas Basalt, upstream from Tanner Graben
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Walcott and Noble
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otherlithology
dolomite and limestone
period
Mesoproterozoic
prilithology
sandstone, siltstone, shale, and basaltic volcanic rocks
region
northcentral Arizona into southcentral Utah in the subsurface
subunits
Bass Formation, Hakatai Shale, Shinumo Quartzite, Dox Formation, and Cardenas Basalt
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underlies
Nankoweap Formation and, as part of the Great Unconformity, the Tapeats Sandstone
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The Unkar Group is a sequence ...... e the Grand Canyon Supergroup.
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Unkar Group
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