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The Painted Hills is a geologic site in Wheeler County, Oregon that is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument along with Sheep Rock and Clarno. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km 2 ) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon .
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 basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million ...
Mitchell is a city in Wheeler County, Oregon, United States. The population was 130 at the 2010 census. It was founded in 1873 and was named after John H. Mitchell, a politician. The Painted Hills unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is about 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell.
John Day Fossil Beds map. The John Day Formation is a series of rock strata exposed in the Picture Gorge district of the John Day River basin and elsewhere in north-central Oregon in the United States.
Dave Black of Black Realty Inc. purchased the nearly 100-acre Painted Hills Golf Course property for $1.1 million at a 2013 auction with the intent of converting the site into a mixed residential ...
English: Panorama of hills in the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in the U.S. state of Oregon. Taken from a bench at the end of the Painted Hills Overlook Trail. Carroll Rim is in the background to the left. Sutton Mountain is in the background to the right.
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The monument is divided into three units: Painted Hills, named for its delicately colored stratifications; Sheep Rock; and Clarno. Blue Basin near Sheep Rock is a volcanic ash bowl transformed into claystone by eons of erosion, colored pastel blue by minerals. [114] Jurassic. Utah