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Canyonlands National Park Mesa Verde Group
This layer does not occur in Canyonlands.
Late Cretaceous (64 to 144 million years ago)
Lagoons, bays, other near-shore regimes.
Cliff forming, gray-brown layered sandstones.
Notes
The Mesa Verde Group contains bituminous coal which is mined around Price, UT.
Book Cliffs north of I-70 between Grand Junction, CO and Green River, UT.
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.