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Thanks to the staff at Hancock Field Station for letting us use some of their printed materials on this site!
Oregon's high desert is shaped from volcanic activity over the millenea. In the Clarno Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument there are a number of layers deposited over time. More information.

Click on the chart below of land formations at Hancock Field Stations to make it larger and more readable..