A Geologic Odyssey: Image
Transition from ancestral Rio Grande gravelly sand to
overbank sand, silt, and clay with fossil snails, to calcified root mat.
Overlain by eolian sheet sand with stage III pedogenic calcium-carbonate
horizon developed beneath Sunport geomorphic surface south of Albuquerque,
New Mexico (Locality 3)
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