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The Mazon Creek fossils are found in the Upper Carboniferous Francis Creek Shale. [6] The type locality is the Mazon River (or Mazon Creek), a tributary of the Illinois River near Morris, Grundy County, Illinois. The 25 to 30 meters of shale were formed approximately , during the Pennsylvanian period.
Frances Slocum State Park is a 1,035-acre (419 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Kingston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Frances Slocum Lake is a 165-acre (67 ha) man-made, horseshoe-shaped lake that is a popular fishing and boating destination.
Operator. Utah Division of State Parks & Recreation. Website. stateparks.utah.gov /parks /lost-creek /. Lost Creek State Park is a state park in northeastern Morgan County, Utah, United States, [2] about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of city of Henefer and about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the unincorporated community of Croydon, Utah.
Green Lakes State Park Golf Course webpage Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine with contact information, times and fees. "Map of Green Lakes State Park" (PDF). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. July 7, 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2011.
Watkins Glen State Park. Watkins Glen State Park is in the village of Watkins Glen, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County in New York 's Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the public in 1863 and was privately run as a tourist resort until 1906, when it was ...
Blanchard Springs Caverns is a cave system located in the Ozark–St. Francis National Forest in Stone County in northern Arkansas, USA, 2 miles (3.2 km) off Highway 14 a short distance north of Mountain View. [1] It is the only tourist cave owned by the United States Forest Service and the only one owned by the federal government outside the ...
Parts of this formation are found in some mesas and buttes in the southernmost part of the park and in badlands east of the park. [19] Open marine conditions created the locally 40 to 720 feet (12 to 220 m) thick gullied slope-forming Tununk Shale Member. It is made of bluish-gray shale with interbedded mudstone, fine-grained sandstone and ...
Pohlsepia mazonensis is named after its discoverer, James Pohl, and the type locality, Mazon Creek. Its habitat was the shallows seawards of a major river delta in what at that time was an inland ocean between the Midwest and the Appalachians. In its initial description, it was considered to be the oldest known octopus, [1] but later studies ...