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Click here to take an image tour of Canyon de Chelley National Monument. View of Canyon de Chelly showing massive outcrops of the de Chelly Sandstone (Permian age) capped by Shinarump Conglomerate (Triassic age). To learn more about Canyon de Chelly National Monument check out the National Park Service website at: http://www.nps.gov/cach/. |
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Generalized stratigraphy after National Park Service brochure (no date). Stratigraphic unit information is modified from the USGS GeoLex (Lexicon of Geology): http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/geolex_qs.html. A generalized geologic time scale is available at: http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/coloradoplateau/timescale.htm. |
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