The Zabriskie Quartzite is a

Cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...

Period geologic formation of the northern Mojave Desert, in Inyo County, California and

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.NPS.gov: Geologic Formations in Death Valley National Park
/ref>GSA Bulletin: "Depositional and sequence stratigraphic framework of the Lower Cambrian Zabriskie Quartzite: Implications for regional correlations and the Early Cambrian paleogeography of the Death Valley region of California and Nevada"
by Anthony R. Prave. It is named for its occurrence at Zabriskie Point, located on the eastern slopes of Death Valley in

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Geology

The lower unit is defined by the Resting Springs Member, the upper unit by the Emigrant Pass Member. It overlies the

Wood Canyon Formation The Wood Canyon Formation is a geologic formation in the northern Mojave Desert of Inyo County, California and Nye County and Clark County, Nevada.Carrara Formation. Springer.com: "Tidal Deposits in the Zabriskie Quartzite (Cambrian), Eastern California and Western Nevada"
John J. Barnes, George deVries Klein. The Quartzite is mostly massive arid granulated due to shearing, in beds thick within the park, and up to elsewhere.

Fossils

It preserves

fossils A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in ...

dating back to the Lower Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era.

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Geology

Fossils

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