The colorful mesas, buttes and badlands compose a natural work of art: the Painted Desert. Wind and running water cut these features from the Chinle Formation…
Consistently locating fossils requires special knowledge of geology and paleontology. But bringing home the find may present the biggest challenge to…
The badlands here are formed from a colorful sequence of rocks called the Chinle Formation. Most of the rocks are soft, fine-grained mudstone, siltstone, and…
Wind and running water cut these features from the Chinle Formation…