Looking S.E. at the exposed declivity of Specimen Ridge where the Fossil Forest has been uncovered by erosion, Yellowstone Nat. Park, Wyo. Nothing could tell more graphically than the view from this point the story of the successive forests which grew above another on the sloped of this ridge, only to be successively submerged by outpourings of lava from the enormous volcanic crater which once, in a remote geological era, was active on the other side of Specimen Ridge, in the direction in which we are looking. Exposed fossil tree trunks are numerous in the face of this cliff and one of them may be plainly seen close to the left end of the sheer wall, just beneath living pines which are growing on the surface of the ridge. (Lat. 45N; Long. 110W)
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Looking S.E. at the exposed declivity of Specimen Ridge where the Fossil Forest has been uncovered by erosion, Yellowstone Nat. Park, Wyo. Nothing could tell more graphically than the view from this point the story of the successive forests which grew above another on the sloped of this ridge, only to be successively submerged by outpourings of lava from the enormous volcanic crater which once, in a remote geological era, was active on the other side of Specimen Ridge, in the direction in which we are looking. Exposed fossil tree trunks are numerous in the face of this cliff and one of them may be plainly seen close to the left end of the sheer wall, just beneath living pines which are growing on the surface of the ridge. (Lat. 45N; Long. 110W).
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