| This view is looking north from the visitor information kiosk/picnic
area at the Painted Hills Unit. The hill (about 500 feet high) is called
Carroll Rim and was the source of many fossils early in the exploration
of the John Day region. The Picture Gorge Ignimbrite (a massive volcanic
tuff deposit) caps the hill (technically called a cuesta). This massive
volcanic deposit overlies sedimentary beds of the middle Turtle Cove Member
of the John Day Formation. |