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Fossil Lake is located in a remote area of northern Lake County, Oregon. It is 19 miles (31 km) from the unincorporated community of Christmas Valley by road. Fossil Lake is approximately 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Bend and 79 miles (127 km) north of Lakeview by straight-line distance. [1] [2]
Additional tree ring studied were conducted in 1938 and 1964 expanded that knowledge. The sedimentary geology of nearby Fossil Lake was studied in 1942, 1945, and 1954. The area's fossil birds were described in a 1946 study. Two studies in the mid-1940s, found some evidence of prehistoric man in areas around Lost Forest.
These include Fossil Lake, which is the source of Oregon's largest Pleistocene fossil assemblage. Included in this assemblage are typical Pleistocene megafauna , including Columbian mammoths , dire wolves , Ice Age bison , camels , the ground sloths Mylodon and Megatherium , and the short-faced bear Arctodus (which was previously mistaken for ...
The Christmas Valley Sand Dunes are a natural sand dune complex covering 11,000 acres (45 km 2) of public lands east of Christmas Valley in Lake County, Oregon, United States, about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Bend. The area is accessible via the Christmas Valley National Back Country Byway. [1] The dunes are up to 60 feet (18 m) high. [1]
The Green River Lake System contained three ancient lakes, Fossil Lake, Lake Gosiute, and Lake Uinta. These lakes covered parts of southwest Wyoming, northeast Utah and northwestern Colorado. Fossil Butte is a remnant of the deposits from Fossil Lake. Fossil Lake was 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 km) long from north to south and 20 miles (32 km) wide.
In 1899 she went camping in Oregon with her friend Martha Beckwith and then went with her father to Bermuda. [1] Alexander's passion for paleontology was sparked on her trip to Crater Lake with Beckwith and in 1900 she began auditing paleontology lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. [3] At Berkeley, Alexander met Professor John C ...
The species was erected by Robert Wilson Shufeldt in 1891 based on remains discovered at Fossil Lake, Oregon. [1] In 1955 Hildegarde Howard described the remains of two differently sized flamingos from Lake Manix in California, assigning the smaller remains to a new species and the larger to Phoenicopterus copei.
Upper Klamath Lake: Oregon's largest lake by surface area, located near the California border, fed by the Williamson River (Oregon), and drained by the Link River into Lake Ewauna: North and South Twin Lakes: two small lakes near the Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway Lake Umatilla: impoundment of the Columbia River formed by the John Day Dam: Wahtum Lake