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  2. Paleontology in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    Oregon's oldest known rock formations are found in the Blue Mountains and the Klamath Mountains. [2] [3] The state's oldest individual rock is a limestone near Suplee dated to nearly 400 million years ago, during the Devonian period of the Paleozoic era.

  3. List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones

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    In 1986, California named benitoite as its state gemstone, a form of the mineral barium titanium silicate that is unique to the Golden State and only found in gem quality in San Benito County. [ 80 ] ^ Colorado is the only state whose geological symbols reflect the national flag's colors: red (rhodochrosite), white (yule marble), and blue ...

  4. Coyote Butte Limestone - Wikipedia

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    The Coyote Butte Limestone (OR085) is a geologic formation in Oregon.It preserves fossils dating back to the Sakmarian to Kungurian stages of the Permian period, [1] spanning an estimated 23 million years.

  5. Erratic Rock State Natural Site - Wikipedia

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    Erratic Rock State Natural Site is a state park in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States.Featuring a 40-short-ton (36 t) glacial erratic from the Missoula Floods, the small park sits atop a foothill of the Northern Oregon Coast Range in Yamhill County between Sheridan and McMinnville off Oregon Route 18.

  6. Thunderegg - Wikipedia

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    On March 30, 1965, the thunderegg was designated as the Oregon state rock by a joint resolution of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. [9] [10] [11] While thundereggs can be collected all over Oregon, the largest deposits are found in Crook, Jefferson, Malheur, Wasco and Wheeler counties. [12]

  7. Columbia River Basalt Group - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia River Basalt Group (including the Steen and Picture Gorge basalts) extends over portions of four states. The Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) is the youngest, smallest and one of the best-preserved continental flood basalt provinces on Earth, covering over 210,000 km 2 (81,000 sq mi) mainly eastern Oregon and Washington, western Idaho, and part of northern Nevada. [1]

  8. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. John Day Formation - Wikipedia

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    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. The Picture Gorge exposure lies east of the Blue Mountain uplift, which cuts southwest–northeast through the Horse Heaven mining district northeast of Madras .