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Aztec Sandstone

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lenses can easily be observed. Frosted and pitted quartz grains well-cemented by silica are described by Evans in 1958 and 1971. The upper and less resistant unit (200m thick) consists of alternating white quartz
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R. E. Reynolds. 1986. California trackways from the Lower Jurassic Aztec Sandstone. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Abstracts with Program 24
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The Aztec Sandstone is made up of two units. The lower resistant sandstone unit (100 metres (330 ft) thick) is tan to off-white in outcrops but pinkish in fresh exposures.
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Porter, M.L. (August 1987). "Sedimentology of an ancient erg margin: the Lower Jurassic Aztec Sandstone, southern Nevada and southern California".
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Lockley, M.; Harris, J.D.; and Mitchell, L. 2008. "A global overview of pterosaur ichnology: tracksite distribution in space and time."
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Hilton, Richard P. 2003. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp.
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Bonde, J. W.; Varricchio, D. J.; Jackson, F. D.; Loope, D. B.; Shirk, A. M. (2008). E. M. Duebendorfer; E. I. Smith (eds.).
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Jennings, C.W., 1961, Geologic map of California; Kingman sheet: California Division of Mines and Geology, scale 1:250,000
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Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire State Park
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Early Jurassic geological formation in the Mojave Desert, United States
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
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have been recovered. The formation is exposed in the
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2,100 ft (640 m) in Goodsprings quadrangle
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Nevada
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Index

Stratigraphic range
Early Jurassic

Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Sedimentary
Willow Tank Formation
Chinle Formation
sandstone
arenite
sand
Coordinates
35°24′N 115°30′W / 35.4°N 115.5°W / 35.4; -115.5
Approximate paleocoordinates
20°48′N 53°24′W / 20.8°N 53.4°W / 20.8; -53.4
Mojave Desert
United States
Aztec Sandstone is located in the United States
Aztec Sandstone is located in California
Early Jurassic
formation
eolian
pterosaur
tracks
Mojave Desert
Arizona
California
Nevada
Cross-bedded
arenites
ichnofossils

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