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    Document Collection: Oregon's Geology and Paleontology

    These articles and scientific papers provide information about past and present climate change, Oregon’s animals, plants, and ecosystems, and natural resources, including energy resources, and food. We have selected them as both readable and relevant to today’s issues. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns, or if there are publicly-accessible articles you’d like to see posted here.
     

    • Columbia basin and Columbia River basalt field trip guidebook

    • PDF File Mt. St. Helens

    • PDF File Dinosaur extinction update

    • PDF File Eocene-Oligocene extinction near Eugene, Oregon

    • PDF File Dinosaur extinction update

    • PDF File Antarctic Plesiosaur

    • PDF File Ice Age Jaguar

    • PDF File Cascade History

    • PDF File Deposition and Transport of the Cretaceous Hudspeth and Gable Creek Formations. This is a technical paper that provides important new data to understanding how Oregon was built. (6.2 MB)

    • PDF File Stratigraphy of the Columbia River Basalts (a chart with names and ages of major flows.)

    Oregon Paleo Lands  
    Institute Center

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    *Due to the current Coronavirus panemic, we are currently closed to visitors.

    We have a tentative open date of June 25, 2020.

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    Please stay safe and healthy.

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    Want to Volunteer?

    The Paleo Lands Center invites you, to meet the public and school groups at our educational hub of the John Day Basin. Volunteers can serve as Board Members, Advisors, Center helpers and docents and help share exciting natural history exhibits, brochures, and books with visitors and schools.
    Please Contact the Center at 541-763-4480 or paleolands@gmail.com for details

     

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    *Please call or email if you would like to schedule your school group for a visit during the week. Thank you!

     

    Contact Information

    333 West Fourth Street

    Post Office Box 104

    Fossil, OR 97830
    Phone: (541) 763-4480

    Email: paleolands@gmail.com

     

     

    We are a 501c3 educational, non-profit, based in Fossil, Oregon.

     

     

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    Created by Gregory Smith & Company, LLC.