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Graneros Shale, the Glossary

The Graneros Shale is a geologic formation in the United States identified in the Great Plains as well as New Mexico that dates to the Cenomanian Age of the Cretaceous Period.^[1]

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Cretaceous Colorado
Cretaceous Iowa
Cretaceous Kansas
Cretaceous Montana
Cretaceous formations of New Mexico
Cretaceous geology of Wyoming

Albian

The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Ammonoidea

Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.

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Anthoceras

Anthoceras is a genus of straight, annulated, proterocamerioceratid molluscs (Order Endocerida) from the Lower Ordovician, found in North America, North-Western Australia, and Siberia.

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Argillite

Argillite is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed predominantly of indurated clay particles.

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Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

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The Belle Fourche Formation or Belle Fourche Shale is a fossiliferous early Late-Cretaceous geologic formation classification in Wyoming. Graneros Shale and Belle Fourche Formation are Cretaceous Montana and Cretaceous geology of Wyoming.

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Belle Fourche, South Dakota

Belle Fourche is a city in and the county seat of Butte County, South Dakota, United States.

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Benton Shale

The Benton Shale (also Benton Formation or Benton Group) is a geologic formation name historically used in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska. Graneros Shale and Benton Shale are Cretaceous Colorado, Cretaceous Montana, Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and shale formations of the United States.

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Bentonite

Bentonite is an absorbent swelling clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite (a type of smectite) which can either be Na-montmorillonite or Ca-montmorillonite.

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Black Hills

The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.

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Calcarenite

Calcarenite is a type of limestone that is composed predominantly, more than 50 percent, of detrital (transported) sand-size (0.0625 to 2 mm in diameter), carbonate grains.

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Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).

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Carlile Shale

The Carlile Shale is a Turonian age Upper/Late Cretaceous series shale geologic formation in the central-western United States, including in the Great Plains region of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Graneros Shale and Carlile Shale are Cretaceous Colorado, Cretaceous Kansas, Cretaceous formations of New Mexico, Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and shale formations of the United States.

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Cenomanian

The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado Group

Colorado is a geologic name applied to certain rocks of Cretaceous age in the North America, particularly in the western Great Plains. This name was originally applied to classify a group of specific marine formations of shale and chalk known for their importance in Eastern Colorado.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Dakota City, Nebraska

Dakota City is a city in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States.

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Dakota Formation

The Dakota is a sedimentary geologic unit name of formation and group rank in Midwestern North America. Graneros Shale and Dakota Formation are Cretaceous Colorado, Cretaceous Iowa, Cretaceous Kansas, Cretaceous formations of New Mexico, Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and shale formations of the United States.

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Desmoceras

Desmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.

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Donald E. Hattin

Donald E. Hattin (1928 - June 24, 2016) was an American geologist and paleontologist, and a geology professor at Indiana University Bloomington for nearly 40 years.

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El Vado Lake

El Vado Lake is a reservoir located in Rio Arriba County, in northern New Mexico in the southwestern United States.

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 – December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.

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Fielding Bradford Meek

Fielding Bradford Meek (December 10, 1817 – December 22, 1876) was an American geologist and a paleontologist who specialized in the invertebrates.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Great Plains

The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America.

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Greenhorn Limestone

The Greenhorn Limestone or Greenhorn Formation is a geologic formation in the Great Plains Region of the United States, dating to the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous period. Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone are Cretaceous Colorado, Cretaceous Kansas and Cretaceous formations of New Mexico.

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Grove Karl Gilbert

Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.

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Inoceramidae

The Inoceramidae are an extinct family of bivalves ("clams") in the Class Mollusca.

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Inoceramus

Inoceramus (Greek: translation "strong pot") is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the extant genus Pteria.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kansas Geological Survey

The Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) is a research and service division of the University of Kansas, charged by statute with studying and providing information on the geologic resources of Kansas.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colorado

This is a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units the U.S. State of Colorado.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples, or with low magnification microscopy.

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Mancos Shale

The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States. Graneros Shale and Mancos Shale are Cretaceous Colorado, Cretaceous formations of New Mexico, Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and shale formations of the United States.

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Marcasite

The mineral marcasite, sometimes called "white iron pyrite", is iron sulfide (FeS2) with orthorhombic crystal structure.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Mowry Shale

The Mowry Shale is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation. Graneros Shale and Mowry Shale are Cretaceous Montana, Cretaceous geology of Wyoming and shale formations of the United States.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Nelson Horatio Darton

Nelson Horatio Darton (December 17, 1865 – February 28, 1948) was a geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech or NMT), formerly New Mexico School of Mines, is a public university in Socorro, New Mexico, United States.

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Newcastle Sandstone

The Newcastle Sandstone is a geologic formation in Wyoming, United States. Graneros Shale and Newcastle Sandstone are Cretaceous geology of Wyoming.

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Niobrara River

The Niobrara River (Ní Ubthátha khe,, literally "water spread-out horizontal-the" or "The Wide-Spreading Water") is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ostrea

Ostrea is a genus of edible oysters, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Ostreidae, the oysters.

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Paleontology in Colorado

Paleontology in Colorado refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).

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Radiometric dating

Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Selenite (mineral)

Selenite, satin spar, desert rose, and gypsum flower are crystal habit varieties of the mineral gypsum.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graneros_Shale

Also known as Graneros Shale Member, Thatcher Limestone, X-bentonite.

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See also

Cretaceous Colorado

Cretaceous Iowa

Cretaceous Kansas

Cretaceous Montana

Cretaceous formations of New Mexico

Cretaceous geology of Wyoming

References