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Übersetzung für 'Laramie-Formation' von Englisch nach Deutsch

Laramie Formation

Laramie-Formation {f}geol.

• Laramie-Formation {f} = Laramie Formation

• The Leyden coal mine, north of Golden, Colorado, produced 4500 pounds (2.1 metric tons) of uranium oxide from 1954 to 1956, as a byproduct of coal mining in the Laramie Formation.
• The Laramie Formation is a geologic formation of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) age, named by Clarence King in 1876 for exposures in northeastern Colorado, in the United States.
• The mine consisted of four shafts providing the access to two flat-lying coal seams from 240 to 260 m (790 to 855 ft) below the surface in the Late Cretaceous Laramie Formation.
• The coal comes from the Cretaceous Laramie Formation.
• Fossils have been found in the Hell Creek Formation, Judith River Formation and Polecat Bench Formation of Montana, the Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada and possibly also the Laramie Formation of Colorado.

• The tracks occur in the Upper Cretaceous Laramie Formation, deposited in a semi-tropical swamp about 68 million years ago.
• At the end of the Cretaceous, continued Laramide uplift hoisted the sandbanks (sandstone) and muddy brackish lagoons (shale), thick sequences of silt and sandstone still seen today as the Laramie Formation, while low-lying basins between them gradually subsided.
• "Ceratopsipes goldenensis" is an ichnospecies of dinosaur footprint, described in 1995 from the Laramie Formation in Colorado.
• A nodosaurid ankylosaur whose remains have been found in the Lance and Laramie Formation.