home editor's page about archive donate subscribe contact AToday: Magazine Archives: Sep/Oct 1998: articles The Ashfall Fossil Beds: 10 Million Years Old? DOWELL E. MARTZ AND ROBERT D. MCHENRY During the early summer of 1971, Dr. Michael Voorhies, a staff paleontologist with the Nebraska State Museum, was scrambling down a recently eroded gully searching for fossils which he hoped might have been uncovered by the unusually heavy rains that year. Dr. Voorhies was following a ledge of ...

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Localities of the Eocene: The Florissant Formation This pleasant green valley, set in the eastern Rocky Mountains of Colorado not far from Pikes Peak, is the site of an important fossil deposit that provides a look at life in the late Eocene. Thirty-six million years ago, volcanic mudflows blocked a stream flowing through this valley, producing a lake about twelve miles long. Vegetation flourished on the shores of this lake, and the valley came to teem with life, until about two milli ...

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