Road Trip–Painted Hills 4

Photograph of The Painted Hills, one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, near Mitchell, OregonThe area was warm and humid when floodplain deposits were laid down. Some of the colored layers are formed from vegetation that grew along the floodplain. There are fossil remains of early camels, rhinoceroses, and horses in the Painted Hills area, as well as the John Day Fossil Beds

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