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95 relations: American kestrel, Anasazi Heritage Center, Ancestral Puebloan dwellings, Ancestral Puebloans, Anglo, Archaeology, Athabaskan languages, Beaver, Bobcat, Bureau of Land Management, Cahone, Colorado, Carbon dioxide, Carbon sequestration, Chalcedony, Chert, Clastic rock, Cliff dwelling, Coal, Colorado, Conglomerate (geology), Cortez, Colorado, Cretaceous, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Dakota Formation, Dolores County, Colorado, Dominguez–Escalante expedition, Enhanced oil recovery, Entrada Sandstone, Erg (landform), Flake tool, Fox, Golden eagle, Great Basin, Hare, Hovenweep National Monument, Hunter-gatherer, Igneous rock, Jurassic, Kayenta Formation, Kiva, List of prehistoric sites in Colorado, Long-nosed leopard lizard, Lowry Pueblo, McElmo Creek, Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde region, Missionary, Mississippian (geology), Montezuma County, Colorado, Morrison Formation, ..., Mudstone, Mule deer, Muskrat, National Conservation Lands, National Monument (United States), National Park Service, Navajo, Navajo Sandstone, Night snake, Nine Mile Canyon, Oasisamerica, Outline of Colorado prehistory, Paleo-Indians, Peregrine falcon, Petrifaction, Petroglyph, Pit-house, Pleasant View, Colorado, President of the United States, Red-tailed hawk, Riparian zone, Sandstone, Sceloporus magister, Sedimentary rock, Seismic source, Seismology, Shale, Siltstone, Spain, Stephen Plog, Summerville Formation, Sweat lodge, Taos Pueblo, Trail of the Ancients, U.S. state, Uranium, Utah, Ute Mountain, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute people, Vanadium, Volcanic ash, Wilderness study area, Wingate Sandstone, Zeolite. Expand index (45 more) »
American kestrel
The American kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest and most common falcon in North America.
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Anasazi Heritage Center
Anasazi Heritage Center, located in Dolores, Colorado, is an archaeological museum of Native American pueblo and hunter-gatherer cultures.
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Ancestral Puebloan dwellings
Hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan dwellings are found across the American Southwest.
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Ancestral Puebloans
The Ancestral Puebloans were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
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Anglo
Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England, the English people, or the English language, such as in the term Anglo-Saxon language.
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Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Athabaskan languages
Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).
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Beaver
The beaver (genus Castor) is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent.
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Bobcat
The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that appeared during the Irvingtonian stage of around 1.8 million years ago (AEO).
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Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.
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Cahone, Colorado
Cahone is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Dolores County, Colorado, United States.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Carbon sequestration
Carbon sequestration is the process involved in carbon capture and the long-term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to mitigate or defer global warming.
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Chalcedony
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.
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Chert
Chert is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
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Clastic rock
Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.
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Cliff dwelling
In archeology, cliff dwellings are dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, with more or less excavation or with additions in the way of masonry.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Conglomerate (geology)
Conglomerate is a coarse-grained clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts, e.g., granules, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders, larger than in diameter.
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Cortez, Colorado
The City of Cortez is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center is a research center and "living classroom" located in southwestern Colorado, USA, which offers experiential education programs for students and adults.
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Dakota Formation
The Dakota Formation (also Dakota Sandstone and Cockrum Sandstone, more formally the Dakota Group) is a geologic formation composed of sedimentary rocks deposited on the eastern side of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway.
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Dolores County, Colorado
Dolores County is the seventh-least populous of the 64 counties of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Dominguez–Escalante expedition
The Domínguez–Escalante expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of northern California.
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Enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR) is the implementation of various techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field.
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Entrada Sandstone
The Entrada Sandstone is a formation in the San Rafael Group that is found in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Colorado, northwest New Mexico, northeast Arizona and southeast Utah.
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Erg (landform)
An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover.
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Flake tool
In archaeology, a flake tool is a type of stone tool that was used during the Stone Age that was created by striking a flake from a prepared stone core.
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Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.
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Golden eagle
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best-known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.
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Hare
Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.
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Hovenweep National Monument
Hovenweep National Monument is located on land in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, between Cortez, Colorado and Blanding, Utah on the Cajon Mesa of the Great Sage Plain.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Kayenta Formation
Kayenta, Arizona is a settlement in the Navajo reservation. The Kayenta Formation is a geologic layer in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.
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Kiva
A kiva is a room used by Puebloans for religious rituals and political meetings, many of them associated with the kachina belief system.
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List of prehistoric sites in Colorado
List of prehistoric sites in Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century.
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Long-nosed leopard lizard
The long-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia wislizenii) is a species of relatively large North American lizard in the family Iguanidae.
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Lowry Pueblo
The Lowry Pueblo is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument near Pleasant View, Colorado, United States.
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McElmo Creek
McElmo Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Mesa Verde National Park
Mesa Verde National Park is an American national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado.
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Mesa Verde region
The Mesa Verde Region is a portion of the Colorado Plateau in the United States that extends through parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Utah.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Mississippian (geology)
The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.
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Montezuma County, Colorado
Montezuma County is the southwesternmost of the 64 counties in the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America.
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Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
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Mule deer
The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule.
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Muskrat
The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra and tribe Ondatrini, is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and is an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America.
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National Conservation Lands
National Conservation Lands, formerly known as the National Landscape Conservation System, is a collection of lands in 873 federally recognized areas considered to be the crown jewels of the American West.
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National Monument (United States)
A national monument in the United States is a protected area that is similar to a national park, but can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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Navajo
The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
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Navajo Sandstone
Navajo Sandstone is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the U.S. states of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, and Utah as part of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States.
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Night snake
Hypsiglena torquata, commonly known as the night snake, is a species of rear-fanged colubrid.
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Nine Mile Canyon
Nine Mile Canyon is a canyon, approximately long, located in the counties of Carbon and Duchesne in eastern Utah, in the Western United States.
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Oasisamerica
Oasisamerica is a term used by some scholars, primarily Mexican anthropologists, for the broad cultural area defining pre-Columbian southwestern North America.
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Outline of Colorado prehistory
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the prehistoric people of Colorado, which covers the period of when humans were first thought to have roamed Colorado until the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition in 1776.
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Paleo-Indians
Paleo-Indians, Paleoindians or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the Americas during the final glacial episodes of the late Pleistocene period.
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Peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a widespread bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.
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Petrifaction
In geology, petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.
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Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
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Pit-house
A pit-house (or pithouse) is a building that is partly dug into the ground, and covered by a roof.
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Pleasant View, Colorado
Pleasant View is an unincorporated community and a U.S. Post Office located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States.
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President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Red-tailed hawk
The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.
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Riparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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Sceloporus magister
Sceloporus magister, also known as the desert spiny lizard, is a lizard species of the subfamily Phrynosomatinae, native to the Chihuahuan Desert and Sonoran Desert of North America.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Seismic source
A seismic source is a device that generates controlled seismic energy used to perform both reflection and refraction seismic surveys.
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Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies.
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Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
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Siltstone
Siltstone is a sedimentary rock which has a grain size in the silt range, finer than sandstone and coarser than claystones.
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Spain
Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
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Stephen Plog
Stephen Plog is a notable American archaeologist and anthropologist, who specializes in the pre-Columbian cultures of the American Southwest.
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Summerville Formation
The Summerville Formation is a geological formation in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah of the Southwestern United States.
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Sweat lodge
A sweat lodge is a low profile hut, typically dome-shaped or oblong, and made with natural materials.
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Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking (Tiwa) Native American tribe of Puebloan people.
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Trail of the Ancients
The Trail of the Ancients is a National Scenic Byway located in the states of Colorado and Utah.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
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Ute Mountain
Ute Mountain (or Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain), is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado.
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, and are mostly descendants of the historic Weeminuche Band who moved to the Southern Ute reservation in 1897.
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Ute people
Ute people are Native Americans of the Ute tribe and culture and are among the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.
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Vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23.
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Volcanic ash
Volcanic ash consists of fragments of pulverized rock, minerals and volcanic glass, created during volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter.
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Wilderness study area
A wilderness study area (WSA) contains undeveloped United States federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, and managed to preserve its natural conditions.
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Wingate Sandstone
The Wingate Sandstone is a geologic formation in the Glen Canyon Group of the Colorado Plateau province of the United States which crops out in northern Arizona, northwest Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.
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Zeolite
Zeolites are microporous, aluminosilicate minerals commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyons_of_the_Ancients_National_Monument
