Closeup of the Towsley Formation showing some thin shale beds that were eroded on the edge of a channel when the rock was deposited. Deposition was under the influence of turbidity currents in deep ocean water. As a turbidity current races down the ocean slope it erodes channels in the bottom sediment, as shown by the truncated (eroded) shale beds in this photo.
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