Highway Salvage Paleontology in the
Wildcat Hills: Life in the Past Lane

Pre-Construction Phase

 

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View north prior to construction.  The diagonal line in the road cut is the geologic contact between the 20 million-year-old river channel and the underlying 28 million-year-old Gering Formation.  This cut produced a treasure-trove of fossils during construction.

 

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