The river is eating away at the softer nonmarine sandstone, with the harder rock forming the falls themselves.
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Estimates of the numbers of nonmarine molluscs vary widely, partly because many regions have not been thoroughly surveyed.
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However, in 2004 the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species included nearly 2, 000 endangered nonmarine molluscs.
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The "'Battle Formation "'is a stratigraphic marker in the nonmarine Upper Cretaceous sequence.
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These coalbeds are part of the Skookumchuck Rock Formation, which is composed of nearshore marine and nonmarine sedimentary rocks.
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About 42 % of recorded extinctions since the year 1500 are of molluscs, consisting almost entirely of nonmarine species.
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The ML pipes are hosted within the nonmarine sedimentary rocks of the Wapiti Formation and were erupted onto an inland alluvial plain.
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The nonmarine rock is primarily sandstone, with some coal, shale, " black " or carbonaceous shale, and siltstone.
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The nonmarine layers are characterized by gastropods like Australorbis, Lymnaea / Galba and Viviparus and ostracods like Gandona, Cypridopsis and Moenocypris.
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The Dawson Arkose contains plant remains and other nonmarine fossils, and hosts aquifers that are important sources of water for the area.