Depositional environments of a coal-bearing section in the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Routt County, Colorado
A 107-m (350 ft) section of coal-bearing rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group that is exposed along an access road to the Edna Mine in Routt County, Colorado, records deposition of sediment during a regressive phase of the epicontinental sea. Each of the coal beds in the section occurs at the top of a bayfill sequence that records infilling of a bay sufficient to provide swamp conditions and allow formation of peat.
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