(83) Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

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1. November 2011

Type: National Monument
Region: Rocky Mountain Region
Location: Florissant, CO
Link: NPS website 

Passport Description: This beautiful mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak holds huge petrified redwoods and detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the valley. A lake formed, and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom compacted into layers of shale preserving the delicate organisms as fossils.

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 Petrified Forest Loop, November 2011

Big Stump, November 2011 

(65) Bandelier National Monument

Visited Together:

1. September 2008
2. February 2011

Type: National Monument
Region: Southwest Region
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Link: NPS website

Passport Description: Best known for mesas, sheer-walled canyons, and several thousand ancestral Pueblo dwellings found among them, Bandelier also includes more than 23,000 acres of designated wilderness. The best-known archeological sites, in Frijoles Canyon, were inhabited from the 1100s into the mid 1500s.

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Bandelier, September 2008

 

Bandelier, September 2008

 

 

 Bandelier, September 2008