large fish fossils Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/large-fish-fossils Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:49:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Why Are There Fish Fossils on Top of the Mountain? http://travelsfinders.com/fish-fossils-top-mountain.html http://travelsfinders.com/fish-fossils-top-mountain.html#respond Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:40:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207167 The Beartooth Plateau is part of the large block of mountains, the Beartooth Range, which is about 75 miles long and 40 miles (120 by 65 km) across. The plateau was uplifted along nearly vertical faults and is mostly composed of very ancient granites and gneisses that are about 2.7 billion years old. When the uplift started about 50 million years ago, these ancient rocks were buried under about 12,000 feet (3660 m) of younger sedimentary rocks. These younger rocks have largely been eroded away but remain in a few areas, such as Beartooth Butte. The strata in the cliff

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