Triassic Chinle Formation - The Rocks of Utah

In this episode of the Rocks of Utah we explore the Triassic Chinle River Formation. The Rocks of Utah is a KZbin series that explores the unique geology of Utah, and hosted by Benjamin Burger a geology professor at Utah State University Uintah Basin Campus in Vernal, Utah.
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No fossils were collected in this episode, rocks and fossils can not be collected from Dinosaur National Monument, and vertebrate fossils require a permit to collect from Bureau of Land Management Lands in Utah.

[@StereoSpace]

As I was led to understand it, the Chinle was laid down in a Triassic version of South America's Amazon River Basin. A tropical plain with large rivers, rainforests, amphibians and reptiles. The rivers were sourced in the Himalayan scale Appalachian highlands in the East. Later, those same rivers carried the copious quantities of sand down from the eroding mountains to the (then) sea coasts of Nevada. That sand blew back onshore with the prevailing winds and built the Navajo-Nugget sand erg, and later the Windgate erg. The national parks of the Southwest are built from the eroded materials of the Appalachian Mountains

[@edstud1]

Wow, I didn't know that!

[@paololuzzatto-fegiz3521]

This is brilliant, thank you for making these videos!

[@krisinsaigon]

enoying these, that really is a beautiful part of the world.

[@andruwxx]

I’m a pretty simple man, I just think Chinle rocks are pretty. Moenkope a little prettier 😂

[@headlessspaceman5681]

Thanks so much for this! As an avid hiker and amateur naturalist in southern Utah, I cannot begin to thank you enough for this kind of geology lesson!

[@006hetzkin5]

Thanks. That was a great tour, well done! I'm even more into geology than I was. Fascinating!

[@TheAdod]

Thank you for making these videos!

[@EDLaw-wo5it]

Such a shame. I moved drilling rigs for several years before I became a rock hound. I missed all of that. But I will be back! Am very familiar with the Vernal area. Thanks for the vids!

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Check out Rob Gay's Triassic adventures in the Chinle on Comb Ridge: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4jKco2gaa1sjZo

[@portugueseeagle8851]

Could you do, in the future, a video about sexual dimorphism in non-avian dinosaurs?

[@jennifercozart4866]

I thought the basal until of the Chinle up north was called the Gartra... I work in northwestern Colorado just outside Dinosaur National Monument and our Chinle is very fossiliferous. Trees, bones, tracks, burrows, it's loaded.

[@rocksandoil2241]

Hey, you have as much trouble pronouncing Shinarump as me ...de Chelly is bad enough. Like Desha basin in SE Arkansas

[@RichardKCollins]

IF you put the camera on a tripod looking at what you want to show, you can use a stylus to point precisely or even draw lines. When you wave your hand at distant formations, I know your eye and mind can see what you are talking and thinking about. But it is NOT precise when I see your hand cover several things that could connect. I do not know the colors and names of things. And I do not see in your mind when your hand exactly covers the thing. But if you draw on the screen that I see, and not use only your eyes, and I only have your camera and screen. Do you see how your methods can lead to confusion? If you truly share your screen, you would narrate and take videos, then edit and narrate and mark later. These is some immediacy lost, but you have tens of thousands of views now, and could - with a bit of effort to speak to the whole world - at least inform the 5 billion now using the Internet. But hand waving that might be fine for a classroom where the people are forced to listen is a lot different than careful annotation and delineation when speaking to billions. And billions who have thousands of alternatives, usually more. You can give references, resource links, and links to groups and communities, papers, databases, more videos. YOU spend a few minutes documenting, when that casualness can waste hours per person and you might have lots of persons. When the people are living on Mars, your videos might be their favorite to know about things on an Earth they have never seen and might never get to visit. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation

[@stationaryenginesworldwide]

Been to Utah looking for rocks and was always amazed by its Geology .what an awesome place and a thumbs ups to you sir for your awesome presentation of it all...thankyou

[@richardrobertson1331]

Heavy metals, such as gold, copper and silver, are usually brought up by water from the deepest areas of the crust thru multiple, periodic fractures. Is that the case with this uranium, as well? Since it's the heaviest element, I don't understand how it became so well distributed in these surface areas of the Chinle formation. The surface distribution from Moab to this location seems as though it is acting like the much lighter metals such as iron, aluminum or magnesium. Any thoughts on the origin of this uranium?

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Unlike gold and silver, uranium oxides into water soluble cations, which can be transported in ground water at low temperatures. As the solution moves through the rocks it tends to accumulate in veins where it is deposited as yellow cake, such as in the overlaying Chinle Formation. Uranium water solubility is dependent on pH, and presence of carbonate, so when uranium-rich groundwater encounters differing pH it can precipitate. Modern extraction sometimes uses a slurry from wells drilled into uranium rich rock, and which are fracked with acids, and the produced uranium rich waters is pumped up to the surface. However, there is often fear of groundwater contamination using such techniques.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Thanks, you're a good teacher! You not only clearly answered my question but then you followed up with an example of how that answer applies to a practical mining situation. Well done!

[@kellynywneing]

Cool shot of the sun rising over split mountain!

[@scarscheesi8383]

your work is astoundingly thrilling

[@alexanderrad3458]

utah rocks!

[@mldbouras6216]

Thanks for sharing this fantastic video

[@kellynywneing]

Is this out by Josie’s cabin??

[@toddwheatley-dr-know3964]

Given its broad application, everyone should understand GEOLOGY - therefore this video has been indexed and a link added by DR-KNOW / iq-2k Information Services - roughly 650 videos have indexed for this series

[@KIngK0Ns3rvAtIOn9]

I really like this.

[@toddeftsadams5909]

The Mossback Member

[@staceyshuman805]

More close-ups of the petroglyphs would be awesome as well. The comments regarding precipitated metals are informative as well. Thank you!

[@granskare]

so the description of 'Burger' is a geology prof. That helps me - I was watching paleontology videos so I was a bit confused here- I know a Utah guy who is in chemistry. thanks

[@scottmckenna9164]

"Every time I come here I see new ones (petroglyphs) on the walls" You mean some modern people work at night?

[@edstud1]

Do you purposely not disclose locations? I live in Utah and would like to visit the site!

[@scottmckenna9164]

Very enjoyable time spent with your videos. Thank you!

[@dcmp3po]

Could you tell me where you are in this video? It looks like a great place to go visit.

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Vernal, Utah. Some of this was shot at Dinosaur.

[@YOUTUBEfucku]

Don't come here we don't want you here. Keep it to you tube, hahahaha

[@Grace-lg6ql]

fascinating!