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Fossil Butte National MonumentSouthwest Wyoming 50 million years ago
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Curriculum Materials

Middle School Curriculum
A Carbon Cycle That Rocks (2.83mb PDF file)
Geology, Relatives, and Time (502kb PDF file)
Radiometric Dating Game (602kb PDF file)

research quarry raw data through 2007 (392kb MS Excel file)

This middle school curriculum is very new. Please send comments and/or suggestions to our Lead Interpreter. Thanks!
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Did You Know?
Plant fossils, like palm fronds, tell us that 50 million years ago, southwest Wyoming's climate was much like Florida's is today.

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Last Updated: April 08, 2009 at 14:49 EST