Chinle Formation - Wikipedia
The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geological formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern …
Chinle Formation - U.S. National Park Service
2015年6月13日 · The Chinle Formation is best known from Petrified Forest National Park, where massive petrified conifer tree trunks are found in abundance, as well as a wide assortment of …
Chinle Formation - U.S. National Park Service
2015年12月14日 · The Chinle Formation is composed of the Shinnarump and Moss Back members. Each has different characteristics due to changes in the depositional environment. …
The Chinle Formation: Stories from Beneath the Rubble
The Chinle Formation consists mostly of pastel-colored mudstones and siltstones punctuated by a few thin sandstone beds. It is known for stunning scenery in the candy-striped hills that make …
Geologic Formations - Petrified Forest National Park (U.S.
2020年9月13日 · The Chinle Formation was deposited over 200 million years ago during the Late Triassic Period. The colorful badland hills, flat-topped mesas, and sculptured buttes of the …
The Chinle Formation consists of, in ascending order, the Shinarump, Mesa Redondo, sandstone and siltstone, Monitor Butte, Petrified Forest, Owl Rock, and Church Rock Members.
Chinle Formation in north-central New Mexico, describes the Chinle Formation in the type locality in northeast Arizona, and discusses the correlation of units between those areas.
Stratigraphy of the Chinle Formation and related Upper Triassic strata on the Colorado Plateau and correlations with Upper Triassic rocks northward into
Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation …
Here, we describe the first occurrence of the lagerpetid Dromomeron romeri from the Chinle Formation of the Eagle Basin of Colorado, which represents the northernmost occurrence of …
The Upper Triassic Chinle Formation in southeastern Utah was deposited in a complex fluvial-deltaic-lacustrine system. The Chinle records the evolution of a continental system in …