Image: Florissant Formation
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Description: This image shows a cut in the Florrisant Formation at the Clare fossil quarry, a commercial fossil collection site in the town of Florissant, Colorado. The Florissant Formation is notable for its excellent preservation of Eocene fossils in paper shale produced by eruptions from the Thirtyone Mile Caldera to the west.
Title: Florissant Formation
Credit: Own work
Author: Kent G. Budge
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