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Fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles.

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  • Soils formed from claystone, shale, sandstone, and mudstone are found west of Meeker, and in the Colorado River valley near Rifle.
  • Olean Till, glacial outwash, glacial lake deposits, and Recent alluvium partly overlie gently dipping Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, claystone, and shale.
  • The layer of sandstone with quartzite intrusions and interlayered with claystone, conglomerate and Mesozoic dykes of diorite, was cracked by tectonic movements and then...
  • These hills are associated primarily with the resistant claystone and sandstone of the Eocene-age Tallahatta Formation, and are part of the rugged, north-facing...
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