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Chilling in the town of Spray, OR after spending all day hiking in the badlands of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. Photos to follow!
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i been to the wenatchee national forest in washington when i was in Seattle. beautiful. -
Just finished digging for fossils, now having lunch in the town of Fossil, OR.
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Find anything?Originally posted by Scrumhalf View PostJust finished digging for fossils, now having lunch in the town of Fossil, OR.
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Yep. We were digging in the Clarno formation which is of volcanic origin dating from about 40 million years ago. That particular area that is open to the public for fossil digging typically has plant fossils. We found lots of fossilized leaves, sequoia needles, nuts, etc. Pretty cool...Originally posted by THE BOUNCER View PostComment
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Was there any religious relics in there with the fossils? :lmao:Comment
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LOL... we found a coprolite that looked like the Virgin Mary.. I mean, it was a clear sign of an intelligent designer... :retard:Comment
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OK.. here are the pictures.... by the way, the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument has geological strata dating from the Cenozoic area, that is, after the dinosaurs had gone extinct, typically from about 50 million years ago to about 20 million years ago depending on the particular formation. So, what one finds there are typically mammals and plants.
Driving to the John Day Fossil Beds. The road follows the John Day River on the right side.
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In the Thomas Condon Visitor Center Museum. Fossil skull of a amynodont, a large rhino-like herbivore.
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In the Visitor Center Museum. Skull of a creodont, a pre-historic carnivore.
Diorama of what a creodont might have looked like.
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On the Island in Time trail in the Blue Basin area
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On the Island in Time trail. This trail is pretty cool because it had actual fossils on display just like the might have been found by paleontologists.
Display of fossilized turtle.
Display of a fossilized oreodont skull. Oreodonts were large herbivores, like really big pigs.
Display of nimravid skeleton. Nimravids were ancient carnivores, somewhat like a small version of a sabertooth cat.
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In the Painted Hills area of the JDFB NM. This area was really beautiful, lots of colors with different shades of rock and clay due to minerals in there.
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Close-up of the hills in the Painted Hills unit. The hills are largely a kind of clay. The red color is from iron oxide deposits, the yellows tend to have magnesium oxide and the lavenders in the front are rhyolitic lava flows.
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