Primary Colors -- Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
by Darin Volpe
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Primary Colors -- Painted Hills at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon
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Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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You might not know by looking, but the color of these hills are evidence that central Oregon was once a land of bananas, avocados, palms, and other tropical vegetation.
Red soil is the remnant of those tropical plants, which left behind iron to oxidize into rust. Yellows are from when the climate was drier and the environment transformed into open rangeland.
The colorful soil is much more textured than it looks from a distance, and I found it to be reminiscent of the old popcorn ceilings in my childhood homes of the 1970's. Being a National Monument, I didn't touch and therefore can't speak as to the hardness of the ground, but you can see where animals have left their tracks.
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December 18th, 2021
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