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Paleozoic Rocks, Mill Creek Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah

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upper paleozoic paleographic map
The depositional environments include a shallow margin of an ocean rich in life and a sandy beach during Missippian and Pennsylvanian time. By Permian time the environment changed to a continental shelf.