Figure 2. The light and dark colored layers represent individual sediment deposits called beds. A few of these beds were sand and most were silt. Even though the beds were folded, crumpled, and faulted to various degrees in their later history, their essential sedimentary character is preserved here. Highlight beds. (MGS photo by Henry Berry.)

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