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Triassic Facies and Geography Rifting

SS in rift basins Triassic

Jurassic Facies and Geography Nevadan orogeny evaporites Dune sand

Jurassic Aeolian deposits in Colorado Plateau

Mid-Cretaceous Facies and Geography Zuni Transgression Sevier orogeny

LS Edwards aq SS Middendorf aq SS Black Warrior River aq Cretaceous Denver Basin Dakota aq Mesa Verde aq

Structures along Atlantic coastal margin

Early Tertiary Facies and Geography Laramide Orogeny Tejas Transgression

LS Floridan aq Early Tertiary Clastic aquifers Clastics in small basins Marine sands and clay

Late Tertiary Facies and Geography Plate motion changes

High Plains aquifer Late Tertiary Alluvial valleys in BR Central Valley Clastic sediments High Plains aquifer Fresh water sediments in Central Valley Columbia Plateau and Snake River basalts

Pleistocene

Alluvial aquifers from Pleistocene to Holocene