Manakacha Formation

3-prominences of Supai Group of Gunther Castle-(east Grand Canyon)
highest prominence-Cliff of Esplanade Sandstone, 3rd prominence-massive cliff of Manakacha Formation
(all peaks on an extensive, flat platform of resistant Redwall Limestone)

The Late Pennsylvanian-Early Permian geologic sequence of the Supai Group common in the Grand Canyon:[3] The Pennsylvanian is the Late Carboniferous.

• Supai Group
  • 4-Esplanade Sandstone-(Early Permian)
    • 3B-(Pakoon Limestone at west Grand Canyon & Nevada)
  • 3-Wescogame Formation-(Late Pennsylvanian)
  • 2-Manakacha Formation
  • 1-Watahomigi Formation

The Supai Group members were created from marine (oceanic) sequences of marine transgression, and regression, thus the alternating sandstone, siltsones, conglomerate subsections (facies); the subsections are not always a continuous transition into the above section, mostly due to ocean levels, falling, or rising, glaciation, or regional subsidence-(basins, etc.) or uplift of land. Today's Wasatch Front is the approximate lineage, NNE to SSW of the western coast region of North America from where the oceans transgressed. The ancient Antler Mountains-(Antler orogeny, off-shore volcanic island arch(es)), of ancient Nevada supplied material, from the west, off the 'ancestral' West Coast. The continent supplied material from the east, both directions supplying the offshore basin, the Cordilleran Basin which became part of the Basin and Range Province, in later epochs. Three other basins were involved in this history: southwest of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains was the Paradox Basin-(eastern Utah to Southwest Colorado), northeast was the Central Colorado Basin-(NW Colorado, NE Utah, SW Wyoming); the Oquirrh Basin was north-northwest, at present day northwest Utah.