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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLF_syncline-thrust-fault_Dayton-WY.html
Across the road is a thrust fault / syncline formation, exposed by the road cut. The fault occurred when pressure caused the rock layers to push up creating the non-conforming layers and downward fold (syncline). The Big Horn Mountains reached the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLD_hogback_Dayton-WY.html
About 500 million years ago the air and land were warmer, and seas covered all of Wyoming including the area you see. You would not recognize any animal life at that time. None of it lived on the land. Then around 75 million years ago, the earth's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NLC_fallen-city_Dayton-WY.html
In the process of uplift, which created the Big Horn Mountains, faults and fractures formed in the rocks. The thick layers of limestone in this area were fractured parallel to the valley. When a section of the Earth's crust sank, huge chunks broke…