Permian

The area has four major geological features, the Andean uplift formed by Granits, the hanging glaciers and glacial erosional valleys, the Permian formation with its singular colors: red, ochre, and turquoise and the Cretaceous, limestone forests.

To the northwest, the watershed dividing the Nive and Bidassoa river basins follows the crest of a Permian-Triassic cuesta in the Baztan region, formed of pink sandstone.

The Chemnitz petrified forest is a petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, that is part of the Early Permian Leukersdorf Formation.

This terrane was part of the early Paleozoic amalgamation of Gondwana and consists of a 13,000 meters (43,000 ft) thick section of folded Cambrian-Permian strata, which accumulated on Grenville-age continental crust.

The geology of the area consists of Triassic sandstones and underlying Permian sedimentary rocks.

Strips of basalt found throughout the region also bear witness to the volcanic activity that has occurred in the history of this fault. The Permian rocks in the central and southeastern expanse of the Lower Hunter Valley were formed when the area was underneath a shallow marine estuary.

All the islands of Scilly are all composed of granite rock of Early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith.

The Kaibab Limestone is a resistant cliff-forming, Permian geologic formation that crops out across the U.S. states of northern Arizona, southern Utah, east central Nevada and southeast California.

The unit has been dated to 257.3 ± 1.6 Ma, placing it in the Wuchiapingian stage of the Late Permian.

Both sandstones were formed in the Permian period when the island was a desert, and in 2026 were found to preserve fossils of plants and tracks and burrows of burrowing animals.

Extensive deposits of sandstone overlain by limestone accumulated in this basin during the Permian period of geologic time.

Just east of Vedauwoo, along I-80, sandstone cliffs are formed by the Permian-age Fountain Formation, which is about 300 million years old.