The (Upper) Late Pennsylvanian Wescogame Formation is a slope-forming, sandstone, red-orange geologic unit, formed from an addition of eolian sand, added to marine transgression deposits, and found throughout sections of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona, Southwest United States. It is one of the upper members of the Supai Group 'redbeds', with the Supai Group found in other sections of Arizona, especially in the Verde Valley region, or as a basement unit below the Mogollon Rim, just eastwards or part of the basement Supai Group of the southwest & south Colorado Plateau.
representative Supai Group 'redbeds' (ridgeline extending north from South Rim, Grand Canyon)
Wescogame Formation slopes directly below upper-vertical-cliff of Esplanade Sandstone-(below Hermit Formation and white Coconino Sandstone prominence). Isis Temple, with complete Supai Group for Grand Canyon; (Pakoon Limestone miles westward in Grand Canyon, and Nevada)
Close-up of 'redbeds'
The Supai Group is a slope-forming section of red bed deposits found in the Colorado Plateau. The group was laid down during the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian. Cliff-forming interbeds of sandstone are noticeable throughout the group. The Supai Group is especially exposed throughout the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona, as well as local regions of southwest Utah, such as the Virgin River valley region. It occurs in Arizona at Chino Point, Sycamore Canyon, and famously at Sedona as parts of Oak Creek Canyon. In the Sedona region, it is overlain by the Hermit Formation, and the colorful Schnebly Hill Formation.
Example Supai red beds, north projecting ridgeline, South Rim, Grand Canyon
Entire four-member sequence, Isis Temple, Grand Canyon
Detail of bedding