page_title: Chinle Formation
section_title: Places found
hierarchical_section_title: Chinle Formation / Places found
caption_attribution_description: English: The Permian (bottom) through Jurassic (top) stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah that makes up much of the famous prominent rock formations in protected areas such as Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park. From top to bottom: Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, layered red Kayenta Formation, cliff-forming, vertically-jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone. Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. (modified version, 26MAY-2012, after change on en:Moenkopi Formation; changing (3) to a (3A,3B), with explanations, because of the larger photo RED debris visible.)The en:Jurassic through en:Permian stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah that makes up much of the famous prominent rock formations in protected areas such as Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park. From top to bottom, (Jurassic to Permian): (6)-Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, (5)-(very-dark)-layered red Kayenta Formation, (4)-(very-dark)-cliff-forming, vertically-jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, (3B)-(RED debris covered)-slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, (3A)-(NO RED Debris)-slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, (2)-layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and (1)-white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone. Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah.)-(this makes 7 Layers, or there are 6 Layers with 3A, and 3B)
context_page_description: 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 Arizona, western New Mexico, and western Colorado. The Chinle is controversially considered to be synonymous to the Dockum Group of eastern Colorado and New Mexico, western Texas, the Oklahoma panhandle, and southwestern Kansas. The Chinle is sometimes colloquially named as a formation within the Dockum Group in New Mexico and in Texas. The Chinle Formation is part of the Colorado Plateau, Basin and Range, and the southern section of the Interior Plains.
  A probable separate depositional basin within the Chinle is found in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah. The southern portion of the Chinle reaches a maximum thickness of a little over 520 m. Typically, the Chinle rests unconformably on the Moenkopi Formation.
context_section_description: Geologic Province:
  Black Mesa Basin*
  Great Basin province*
  Green River Basin*
  Las Vegas-Raton Basin*
  Orogrande Basin
  Palo Duro Basin*
  Paradox Basin*
  Permian Basin
  Piceance Basin*
  Plateau sedimentary province*
  San Juan Basin*
  Sierra Grande Uplift*
  Uinta Basin*
  Uinta Uplift*
  Wasatch Uplift*
  Parklands:
  Arches National Park
  Canyonlands National Park – see geology of the Canyonlands area
  Capitol Reef National Park – see geology of the Capitol Reef area
  Colorado National Monument
  Dinosaur National Monument
  Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
  Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
  Gold Butte National Monument
  Grand Canyon National Park  – see geology of the Grand Canyon
  Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
  Lake Mead National Recreation Area
  Natural Bridges National Monument
  Petrified Forest National Park
  Red Fleet State Park
  Wupatki National Monument
  Zion National Park – see geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area
  Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
  Other:
  Ghost Ranch
caption: The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah that makes up much of the famous prominent rock formations in protected areas such as Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park.  
  From top to bottom: (youngest to oldest)
  5 – Rounded tan domes of the Navajo Sandstone, 
  4 – layered red Kayenta Formation, 
  3 – cliff-forming, vertically-jointed, red Wingate Sandstone, 
  2 – slope-forming, purplish Chinle Formation, layered, lighter-red Moenkopi Formation, and 
  1 – white, layered Cutler Formation sandstone.
  Picture from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
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