File:Petrified plants and fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado (b86a1465-1a6c-4477-b314-b7e9e7495fce).jpg
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Camera location | 38° 54′ 45.36″ N, 105° 16′ 48″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 38.912601; -105.279999 |
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[edit]English: Petrified plants and fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado | |||||
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English: NPS staff |
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Title |
English: Petrified plants and fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado |
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English: National Park Service |
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Description |
English: Petrified Hydrangea leaf and Rhus plant. A beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the then-lush valley and petrified the redwood trees that grew there. A lake formed in the valley and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom became the final resting-place for thousands of insects and plants. These sediments compacted into layers of shale and preserved the delicate details of these organisms as fossils. The Florissant Fossil Beds are world-renowned, and in 1969 were set aside as a part of our National Park System; Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
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English: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Teller County, Colorado |
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Date | Taken on 13 January 2003 | ||||
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English: NPGallery |
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Sponsor InfoField | English: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument |
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NPS Unit Code InfoField | FLFO | ||||
Legacy NPS Focus Record ID InfoField | 231528 |
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Image title | A beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the then-lush valley and petrified the redwood trees that grew there. A lake formed in the valley and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom became the final resting-place for thousands of insects and plants. These sediments compacted into layers of shale and preserved the delicate details of these organisms as fossils. The Florissant Fossil Beds are world-renowned, and in 1969 were set aside as a part of our National Park System; Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. |
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Date and time of data generation | 19800101 - 19991231 |
Latitude | 38° 54′ 45.37″ N |
Longitude | 105° 16′ 48″ W |
Altitude | 0 meters above sea level |
GPS tag version | 2.2.0.0 |