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Fossil Butte National Monument

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Some of the world's best preserved fossils are found in the flat-topped ridges of southwestern Wyoming's cold sagebrush desert. Fossilized fishes, insects, plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals are exceptional for their abundance, variety, and detail of preservation. Most remarkable is the story they tell of ancient life in a sub-tropical landscape.

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Runtime: 12 minutes 17 seconds

Topic: Geography, Science
Subtopic: Earth Sciences, Geology, U.S. Geography
Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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Release Year: 2008
Producer/Distributor: Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc
Series: America's National Monuments: The Geologic West
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Sloped hills leading to a body of water. Caption: from which the Hagerman fossils have been excavated.

Map of the northwest United States showing John Day Fossil Beds in Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Clarno Unit, Sheep Rock Unit, and Painted Hills Unit are in Oregon. Caption: preserve a continuous 40-million-year fossil record

Rolling hills lead into a wide valley. Caption: Known as Fossil Lake, Fossil Butte National Monument

Forested hillside with a sign "Welcome to Pinnacles National Monument National Park Service Department of the Interior" Caption: is a place of great surprises.

Narrow paved path spiraling to the top of a rocky conical structure. Caption: a great fissure opened up in Central Idaho

A river with brush lining the banks winds down from a mountain through evergreen trees. Caption: Here there is no fancy visitor center.

Rough lava rocks with a few trees growing out of them. Caption: (male narrator) Laval Beds National Monument is all things volcanic.

Wooden fence lining a path through a forest. Black and white photo of a man overlaid. Caption: bridges that the great John Muir once stood on.

Still image from: Minidoka Internment National Monument

Domed, dripping rock structures line the wall of a cave. Caption: but only one that is a marble cave.