Arizona

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Sedona Area, Oak Creek Canyon, Coconino County

The red rocks at base:  Supai Group (Pennsylvanian-Permian) and Hermit Shale (Permian).  White wall cap:  Coconino Sandstone (Permian).

Petrified Forest National Park, Navajo and Apache Counties

Late Triassic (Norian) Chinle Group, Painted Desert Formation

Salt River Canyon, Gila County

Various Precambrian and Paleozoic Rocks.

Lavender Pit Copper Mine (Abandoned), Cochise County

The Bisbee Lavender Pit was one of the younger strip mines in the area, and was operational from 1950 to 1974.

The copper-bearing hydrothermal veins (ore bodies) were formed by magma intruding into preexisting Paleozoic rocks during the Jurassic Period.

Mule Mountains, Cochise County

Cretaceous:  Campanian–Maastrichtian Cabullona Group, Cenomanian–Middle Albian Cintura Formation, Latest Aptian–Middle Albian Mural Limestone (Cerro La Espina Mbr is the massive limestone in view), Early–Late Aptian Lowell Formation, Early Aptian–Neocomian Morita Formation.

Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous:  Late Jurassic–Neocomian Glance Conglomerate plus some igneous intrusives.

Paleozoic:  Pennsylvanian–Permian rocks.

Petrified Forest National Park, Navajo and Apache Counties

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Sunset Crater National Monument, Coconino County

A several hundred year old volcano (andesite and rhyolite cinder cone)

Dinosaur tracks (claw preserved in rocks too!) west of the U.S. 89-U.S. 160 junction, Coconino County

A Navajo will guide you around (just look for the signs west of Tuba City).  Late Triassic (Norian) Chinle Group, Painted Desert Formation.