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For the past 27 years the Cambrian sedimentary sequence exposed in the walls of Grand Canyon, Arizona, has served as a classic illustration of time-transgressive sedimentation and as a nearly ideal example of the textbook concept of the deepening offshore succession of marine environments—from the shallow, nearshore, high energy Tapeats Sandstone to the deeper, quieter water Bright Angel Shale to the yet deeper marine areas of Muav Limestone accumulation (McKee, 1945, 1969; Shelton, 1966).
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McKee, E. D. 1945. Cambrian History of the Grand Canyon Region. Pt. 1. Stratigraphy and ecology of the Grand Canyon Cambrian, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 653 ,1–168.
McKee, E. D. 1969. Paleozoic rock of Grand Canyon. In Geology and Natural History of the Fifth Field Conference, Powell Centennial River Expedition ,Four Corners Geol. Soc. pp. 78–90.
Shelton, J. S. 1966. Geology Illustrated. Freeman, San Francisco, 434 pp.
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Wanless, H.R. (1975). Carbonate Tidal Flats of the Grand Canyon Cambrian. In: Ginsburg, R.N. (eds) Tidal Deposits. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88494-8_31
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