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ROCK STAR

1. Dakota sandstone

113 million to 95 million years old*

Dakota sandstone holds deposits from the massive inland sea that existed here about the time bees and flowering plants entered the fossil record. See It: Atop Black Ridge, on the west side of the monument

2. Burro Canyon formation

119 million to

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