The Kokala tract is located between two ridges: in the northwestern part of the Western Karatau ridge and in the central eastern part of the Northern Aktau ridge, 5.3 kilometers east and slightly north of the village of Shayyr, 6.5 kilometers southwest of Mount Zhalgan with a height of 331.2 meters above sea level, 9.5 kilometers west and just south of Mount Sherkala in the Mangistau district of the Mangistau region.

Natural multicoloration among the monolithic rocky highlands of Mangystau. The variegated formation of the Lower Jurassic is represented by layers of clays, siltstones, sandstones, rarely sands and marls. The entire thickness is colored in greenish-gray, white, crimson-red, light purple and other tones. The thickness of the suite on Mount Kokala is 115 m.

The Kokala tract is famous for its bizarre washouts of variegated and colored clays and a mountain gorge with spring water, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the tract. The Karatau mountain fold, rising from the bowels of the Earth, lifted layers along the edge of the fault, which were forever buried under the thickness of oceanic sediments.

This is how colored clays of the Jurassic period were born. Kokala is a natural multicoloration among the monolithic rocky highlands of Mangystau, a small temporary tunnel in the age of dinosaurs. You will not find fossilized remains or traces of long-gone reptiles here, but you can touch real wood deposits and coals of burnt places where dinosaurs roamed.

We won't see fossilized bones or traces of long-gone reptiles here, but we can touch real 170-200 million-year-old charcoal from the burned forest where dinosaurs roamed. Nature has amazingly eroded the clay layers, creating a layered mountain of hummocks, columns, mushrooms, pyramids and miniature canyons with intricately carved sides.