The Indigenous Witnesses of Mount Mazama's Eruption and Creation of Crater Lake
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The Indigenous Witnesses of Mount Mazama's Eruption and Creation of Crater Lake

Local tribes, including the Klamath First Nation, have passed down oral traditions and stories that detail the eruption Mount Mazama in Oregon.

These stories closely parallel what is geologically known to be true about this eruption and the subsequent formation of the lake that formed within the crater of a collapsed Mount Mazama, known as Crater Lake.

This, along with archeological anthropogenic evidence, lets us know that First Peoples had witnessed the event that formed Crater Lake.

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The Geology of Oregon's Painted Hills
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The Geology of Oregon's Painted Hills

The John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a rich geologic complex that range in ages from the present to around 100 million years ago.

The Painted Hills are one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. They are comprised of brightly-colored banded clay deposits from a series of volcanic ash eruptions during the Oligocene Epoch, about 35 million years ago.  

The colored bands represent changes in climate that occurred during composition.

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