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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 ...
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.
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.
Painted Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson Township, Morgan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] Its population was 766 as of the 2020 census, [3] up from 677 in 2010. [4] The community is located on the shores of Lake Holiday and Lake Nebo southeast of Martinsville, the Morgan county seat ...
The Painted Desert is a United States desert of badlands in the Four Corners area, [2] running from near the east end of Grand Canyon National Park and southeast into Petrified Forest National Park. It is most easily accessed from the north portion of Petrified Forest National Park.
The name translates to English as "Painted Hills" due to the 350 geoglyphs inscribed on them between A.D. 500 and 1450. [2] A hill by the same name in Amazonas State is host to some of the world's largest prehistoric petroglyphs, including depictions of gigantic snakes and Amazonian giant centipedes. [3]
Painted Canyon is a valley in Billings County, North Dakota, in the United States. [1] Painted Canyon was so named on account of its colorful rocks. [2]