Bouse Formation riverbed (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Bouse Formation riverbed

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Kevin Gardner, an earth sciences doctoral student at the University of Oregon, stands in a riverbed in the Palo Verde Mountains, about nine miles southeast of Palo Verde, California. Behind him is Meaghan Emery-Wetherell, who earned a doctorate from the UO in 2016. The riverbed, within the Bouse Formation, contains white tidal flat carbonates that overlain by red silts and muds, evidence that points to a seawater past.

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Photo by Rebecca Dorsey

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