The RailroadCanyonBedsFormation is a geologic formation in Idaho. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Earth sciences portal Paleontology...
river and lake bed sedimentary rock. The red, orange, and white colors of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce Canyon National Park...
the beds were described by Leo Lesquereux, fossil insects by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, and vertebrate fossils by Edward Drinker Cope. The formation was...
John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Located within the John Day River...
at Chaco Canyon National Park, where many of the coal beds have been burned to produce distinctive red cinder outcrops. The Menefee Formation includes...
over the area as Greenhorn of the Benton Group and the Niobrara Formation. Within these beds are found abundant marine fossils (ammonites and skeletons of...
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is a national monument protecting an archaeologically significant landscape located in the southwestern region...
Grand Junction, Colorado. Sheer-walled canyons cut deep into sandstone and granite–gneiss–schist rock formations. This is an area of desert land high on...
than 130 species of birds, including white-throated swifts, swallows and canyon wrens. The Garden of the Gods Park is popular for hiking, technical rock...
which exposes the Toroweap Formation and Coconino Sandstone. The Kaibab formation also forms the rim of the Grand Canyon. Crossbedding is present in...
during the last 150,000 years, represented by a sequence of salt and mud beds. The precipitation of minerals occurred during long periods of lake evaporation...
present-day formations. Turkey Run's terrain also includes many common features of glaciation such as glacial erratics, till, and scoured canyons caused by...
coal. It is considered a classic orogenic molasse. The formation was first described from a railroad cut south of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The relationship...
and rock formations. The visitor center has a free shuttle that leaves each morning at 9:00am. The shuttle takes hikers to the Echo Canyon or Massai...
resources and formations. The national park lies above an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches...
Plateau. The railroad branched from an existing line at Salina and traveled east up Salina Canyon. After the mines closed, the railroadbed was used to...
scenery, in particular for its Cambrian sandstone rock formations and tributary canyons. The formations are divided into the "Upper Dells" and the "Lower Dells"...
circles much of the Black Hills. These shale and gypsum beds, as well as the nearby limestone beds of the Minnekahta, are used in the manufacture of cement...
protects the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations in the monument range from 3,100 feet to 6,500 feet above sea...
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visitor center, and a fifth trail in Colorado. The dinosaur fossil beds (bone beds) were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working...
carved from the white Permian sandstone of the Cedar Mesa Formation that gives White Canyon its name. The three bridges in the park are named Kachina...
western U.S.: John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Idaho Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska...
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