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Sixtymile Formation: Depositional environment, Overview & Nomenclature

The Sixtymile Formation is a very thin accumulation of sandstone, siltstone, and breccia underlying the Tapeats Sandstone that is exposed in only four places in the Chuar Valley. These exposures occur atop Nankoweap Butte and within Awatubi and Sixtymile Canyons in the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona. The maximum preserved thickness of the Sixtymile…

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Sixtymile Formation topic overview

The analysis highlights Depositional environment, Overview and Nomenclature as prominent areas in the source structure around Sixtymile Formation.

Related topics
21
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
26
Extracted relationships
119
Concept neighborhoods
11
Bridge connections
26

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 11 topics
Depositional environment · 7 topics
Age · 1 topics
Nomenclature · 1 topics
Popular Publications · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Country
United States
Extent
the Chuar syncline, Grand Canyon
Named by
Ford et al. (1972), Ford and Breed (1973), and Elston (1979)
Other
intraformational breccia
Overlies
Chuar Group
Primary
siltstone and sandstone

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Nomenclature

Depositional environment

Age

Popular Publications

  • ISBN ISBN (identifier)

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Sixtymile Formation connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sixtymile Formation shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sixtymile Formation → Anonymous, Arizona, Boatman's Quarterly Review, Book, Bowman, Chuar Group, Colorado Plateau, Dehler, Disassembly, Geological Survey, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Geology Training, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Supergroup, Grand Canyon Supergroup Six, Karlstrom, Learning, Manual, Mathis, National Park Service Another extracted example is Sixtymile Formation → Away, Chuar, Chuar Group, Chuar Syncline, In, Local, Middle Member, Sixtymile, Sixtymile Canyon, Tapeats Sandstone, The, These, This, Typically, Upper Member, Walcott, Walcott Member, Within. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sixtymile Formation

Top relations

related to External links · 35
Sixtymile Formation → Anonymous, Arizona, Boatman's Quarterly Review, Book, Bowman, Chuar Group, Colorado Plateau, Dehler, Disassembly, Geological Survey, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Geology Training, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Supergroup, Grand Canyon Supergroup Six, Karlstrom, Learning, Manual, Mathis, National Park Service
related to Contacts · 18
Sixtymile Formation → Away, Chuar, Chuar Group, Chuar Syncline, In, Local, Middle Member, Sixtymile, Sixtymile Canyon, Tapeats Sandstone, The, These, This, Typically, Upper Member, Walcott, Walcott Member, Within
related to Nomenclature · 18
Sixtymile Formation → Breed, Cambrian, Chuar Group, Ford, Grand Canyon Supergroup, In, It, Kwagunt Formation, Later, Precambrian, Sixty Mile Formation, Sixtymile, Sixtymile Canyon, The, The Sixtymile Formation, They, Timmons, Tonto Group
related to Age · 13
Sixtymile Formation → As, Cambrian, Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, However, In, Karl Karlstrom, Lake Mead, Ma, The U-Pb, Thus, Tonto Group, Walcott Member
related to Description · 13
Sixtymile Formation → Blocks, Chert, Chuar Syncline, In, Individual, Middle Member, The, The Middle Member, The Sixtymile Formation, They, This, Upper Member, Walcott Member
related to Depositional environment · 8
Sixtymile Formation → Butte, Chuar, Chuar Syncline, Lower Member, Middle Member, The, The Sixtymile Formation, The Upper Member
is a · 2
Sixtymile Formation → disconformity that laterally becomes an angular unconformity, very thin accumulation of sandstone
Country · 1
Sixtymile Formation → United States
Extent · 1
Sixtymile Formation → the Chuar syncline, Grand Canyon
Named by · 1
Sixtymile Formation → Ford et al. (1972), Ford and Breed (1973), and Elston (1979)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

sixtymile formation chuar member syncline sandstone group canyon upper grand middle within ft tapeats beds butte nankoweap lower underlying fault

Sixtymile Formation relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 119 structured relationships around Sixtymile Formation. Examples in this analysis include Sixtymile Formation → Country → United States and Sixtymile Formation → Extent → the Chuar syncline, Grand Canyon. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sixtymile FormationCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationExtentthe Chuar syncline, Grand Canyon1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationNamed byFord et al. (1972), Ford and Breed (1973), and Elston (1979)1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationOtherintraformational breccia1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationOverliesChuar Group1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationPrimarysiltstone and sandstone1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationRegionNorthern Arizona1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationThickness60 m (200 ft), at maximum1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationTypeGeological formation1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationUnderliesTapeats Sandstone1.00infobox
Sixtymile FormationUnit ofTonto Group1.00infobox
Sixtymile Formationis avery thin accumulation of sandstone0.90text
Sixtymile Formationis adisconformity that laterally becomes an angular unconformity0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Sixtymile Formation bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sixtymile, Group and Sandstone. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Sixtymile Formation
    • Sixtymile
    • Group
    • Sandstone
    • Chuar
    • Ft
    • Tapeats
    • Canyon
    • Member
    • Deposition
    • Syncline
    • Age
    • Overlying
  • sixtymile formation
    • Sixtymile
    • Group
    • Sandstone
    • Ft
    • Chuar
    • Tapeats
    • Canyon
    • Member
    • Upper
    • Age
    • Overlying
    • Underlying
  • tapeats sandstone
    • Breccia
    • Siltstone
    • Tapeats
    • Thickness
    • Deposition
    • Erosion
    • Red
    • Upper
    • Syncline
    • Sixtymile
    • Conglomerate
    • Consists
  • chuar group
    • Syncline
    • Group
    • Sixtymile
    • Age
    • Within
    • Formation
    • Tapeats
    • Member
    • Canyon
    • Upper
    • Sandstone
    • Grand
  • nankoweap formation
    • Sixtymile
    • Unkar
    • Group
    • Sandstone
    • Ft
    • Canyon
    • Chuar
    • Within
    • Tapeats
    • Grand
    • Member
    • Along
  • grand canyon supergroup
    • Canyon
    • Grand
    • Supergroup
    • Arizona
    • Group
    • Within
    • Nankoweap
    • Chuar
    • Unkar
    • Age
    • Sixtymile
    • Formation
  • unkar group
    • Nankoweap
    • Sixtymile
    • Age
    • Supergroup
    • Group
    • Unkar
    • Preserved
    • Tapeats
    • Syncline
    • Within
    • Chuar
    • Grand
  • syncline
    • Axis
    • Upper
    • Member
    • Within
    • Along
    • Tapeats
    • Conglomerate
    • Consists
    • Fault
    • Thin
    • Contact
    • Beds

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sixtymile Formation, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sixtymile Formation with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Sixtymile FormationOverview · splits 15 ⟂ 12
Sixtymile FormationDepositional environment · splits 19 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sixtymile Formation

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples119
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sixtymile Formation to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Depositional environment, Overview & Nomenclature, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sixtymile Formation · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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