Investigations in the Triassic Chinle Formation

Description

Editors: Breed, Carol S.  (1933-2022) and Breed, William J.  (1928-2013)

Publisher: Museum of Northern Arizona

Pub Date: 1972

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s name stamped on upper front cover corner and upper corner of the title page.  Upper front cover corner has an approx.1/2″ bend, extends through entire volume (dropped).  Includes 4 charts in pocket at rear.

Notes: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin No. 47.  Conference papers.  The Chinle Formation was first described in 1917.  It includes the Petrified Forest, the Painted Desert, Zuni Mountains, the Chama Basin, Ghost Ranch, Zion and Bryce Canyon, and Monument Valley, with several outliers in western and southwestern Colorado.  Nice chapter on how the nomenclature of the Formation changed from the 1850s to the 1950s.  Lots of small fossils, very few large ones.