Copper Basin, Nevada
Copper Basin, Nevada
| The view is northwest across scenic Copper
Basin. Note the prominent outcrops of whitish tuffs of the Upper
Eocene Dead Horse Tuff lying below the more massive reddish-brown
rhyolite. Local concentrations of beautifully preserved, carbonized
40-million-year-old leaf impressions occur within minor tuffaceous
shale accumulations interbedded in the predominantly volcanic
terrain. |
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Trip To The Copper Basin Fossil Flora
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