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Johnnie Formation

4,000 foot thick, 600+ million years old. The Death Valley region was on the margin of a rising and falling sea for 300 million years. The purple mudstone was formed in a near-shore marine environment.

Precambrian > Proterozoic eon > Neoproterozoic era > Ediacaran period

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Johnnie Formation
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