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Monte Of The Month -- September 2009
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 3,279
From: Bushkill, PA
awsome pics todd, they are a GREAT backdrop for the 'burbon 
are ya allowed to off road there? 
probibly not, haha. be a pretty awsome spot for riding a quad though... or my old sazuki samuri. much more my style
are ya allowed to off road there? probibly not, haha. be a pretty awsome spot for riding a quad though... or my old sazuki samuri. much more my style
Nice pictures. I must admit I had never heard of them. I had to look it up on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Hills
Painted Hills is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler County, Oregon.[1] It totals 3,132 acres (1,267 ha) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon and 75 miles (121 km) east of Bend.[2] Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain.
The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale.[3] The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid.[4]
An abundance of fossil remains of early horses, camels, and rhinoceroses in the Painted Hills unit makes the area particularly important to vertebrate paleontologists.[5]
The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale.[3] The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid.[4]
An abundance of fossil remains of early horses, camels, and rhinoceroses in the Painted Hills unit makes the area particularly important to vertebrate paleontologists.[5]
