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Posted: 15 Feb 2012


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Conglomerate

Conglomerate
In Cutler Formation (Permian), Fisher Towers, Utah. The nice round cobbles and pebbles were weathered out of metamorphic rock in the Uncompahgre uplift immediately to the east (the so-called "Ancestral Rockies"), so now they're second generation erosional debris! The Cutler is about 250 million years old, and those metamorphic rocks were already ancient then. A striking example of "deep time...."

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