Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument


00:00:52 1 History
00:01:51 2 Geology
00:04:27 2.1 Thirtynine Mile Volcanic Field
00:05:47 3 Fossils
00:07:53 3.1 Paleoflora
00:09:56 3.2 Fauna
00:10:29 3.2.1 Invertebrates
00:12:30 3.2.2 Vertebrates
00:14:49 4 Paleoclimate
00:16:58 4.1 Paleohabitats
00:17:57 4.2 Paleoaltitude
00:18:53 5 See also



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The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument located in Teller County, Colorado. The location is famous for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales of the Florissant Formation. Based on argon radiometric dating, the formation is Eocene (approximately 34 million years old ) in age and has been interpreted as a lake environment. The fossils have been preserved because of the interaction of the volcanic ash from the nearby Thirtynine Mile volcanic field with diatoms in the lake, causing an diatom bloom. As the diatoms fell to the bottom of the lake, any plants or animals that had recently died were preserved by the diatom falls. Fine layers of clays and muds interspersed with layers of ash form "paper shales" holding beautifully-preserved fossils.