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John Wesley Powell A professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan ... and Hermit Shale. The Coconino Sandstone layer was deposited not by the sea, but by wind, which blew in sand across the region.

Zealandia fits all those points, but being almost inaccessible, little is known about its geology in detail ... They discovered large submersed sandstone formations following the outer margins ...