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Montane Valley

FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT

Mudflows from an ancient volcano buried a forest of redwood trees that once grew in the Florissant valley. Florissant’s largest and most conspicuous fossils are petrified stumps of these giant trees.

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