Closeup of the Upper Cretaceous Tuna Canyon Formation. The rock unit here is a cobble to boulder conglomerate. Rare marine fossils in the formation prove that the rock was deposited in shallow ocean water, and the coarseness of the material indicates deposition on a fan delta (an environment near the shoreline where a nonmarine alluvial fan enters the ocean and forms a delta in shallow ocean water).
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