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Chimney Rock, also called Jackson Butte, is a sandstone pillar in southwest Colorado within Ute Mountain Tribal Park, rising 6,110 feet above sea level and about 900 feet above the Mancos River Valley in the Mesa Verde region. Named for photographer and explorer William Henry Jackson, it is connected to the Hayden Survey, during which Jackson became the first to photograph the region’s cliff dwellings, linking the butte to early visual and archaeological documentation of the Southwest. Geologically, it stands on the Colorado Plateau, formed from Cretaceous Point Lookout Sandstone resting on softer Mancos Shale, with runoff draining into the Mancos River watershed.
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