The Field Atlas
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Fig. 1A stone log and the banded Chinle at dusk
Banded Chinle badlands in lavender, blue, and ash, scattered with the jewel-colored logs of a Triassic forest.
The Chinle Formation is old mud turned to candy. Petrified logs lie where a river dropped them two hundred million years ago. Evening is the hour the bands go violet.
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The nearest plates, by the miles.
Painted Desert9 miles · ArizonaCCXL
Mogollon Rim79 miles · ArizonaCCCLI
Canyon de Chelly84 miles · ArizonaLXII
El Malpais94 miles · New MexicoCCLXXIX
Sunset Crater103 miles · ArizonaCCXXXVIII
La Ventana106 miles · New MexicoCXVII
Humphreys Peak112 miles · ArizonaCCXXXVII
Oak Creek Canyon112 miles · ArizonaCCXLIIDesert chapter
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