Saugus Formation

(Map site 17.) Canyon outcrop of the Plio-Pleistocene Saugus Formation that was deposited on a river floodplain. The more recent river floodplain seen from above in photo 12 is in the background. At the time the river was depositing that floodplain, the canyon exposed here had not yet been eroded.

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