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Coleharbor Formation- River Sediment- Collapsed River Sediment

Moderately well sorted cross-bedded sand and plane-bedded gravel, including sediment of melt-water and other rivers; as thick as 30 meters (100 feet). Faulted and contorted supraglacial sediment with hummocky topography.
StateNorth Dakota
NameColeharbor Formation- River Sediment- Collapsed River Sediment
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene Holocene
Original map labelQcrh
CommentsColeharbor Formation- Sandy, silty clay with pebbles of limestone, dolomite, granite, gneiss, and basalt; nonorganic, bedded clay, silt, sand, and gravel; as thick as 200 meters (600 feet).
Primary rock typesand
Secondary rock typegravel
Other rock types
Lithologic constituents
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Sand (Glacial, outwash)
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital > Gravel (Glacial, outwash)
Map references
Clayton, Lee, 1980, Geologic Map of North Dakota: U. S. Geological Survey, Scale 1:500K.
Unit references
Clayton, Lee, 1980, Geologic Map of North Dakota: U. S. Geological Survey, Scale 1:500K.
Geographic coverageBenson - Bottineau - Burke - Burleigh - Dickey - Divide - Eddy - Emmons - Griggs - Kidder - Logan - McHenry - McIntosh - McLean - Mountrail - Rolette - Sheridan - Stutsman - Towner - Ward - Wells - Williams

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