Talk:John Day Formation

Amazing panorama photo...kudos

Really surprised by and like this panorama. Wish there was some wider place (VP? FP?) where we could leave legitimate congratulations for something good. Wiki should not only be critical. And part of a true critical function is recognizing excellence.

TCO (talk) 21:08, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

• It was actually already an FP when you posted. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:49, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

File:East face painted hills panorama.jpg

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:East face painted hills panorama.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on March 23, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-03-23. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:49, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Picture of the day

A panorama of the east face of hills showing strata from the John Day Formation in the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The strata, which vary in age from 18 million to 39 million years, were formed mainly from ashfalls from volcanoes to the west. The sediment layers vary in their chemical composition and color owing to the ash and other debris falling during varied climatic and volcanic conditions.Photograph: Finetooth

The fossils

The main interest for the Formation is its fossils. The mention of them is needlessly cursory.--Wetman (talk) 03:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)