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Yellowstone River approximately opposite from Calcite Falls Pull-out

Overhanging Cliffs which is roughly adjacent to the Rock Slide area shown above.

This is probably what the Rock Slide area shown earlier looked like before it let loose and crashed into the river. If you were under these rocks when they let loose, you would be described as having had "bad" karma. All of these Basalt Layers along this section of the river are part of the Junction Butte Lava Flow which is about 2.2 Millions years old.

Text Box: This is probably what the Rock Slide area shown earlier looked like before it let loose and crashed into the river. If you were under these rocks when they let loose, you would be described as having had "bad" karma. All of these Basalt Layers along this section of the river are part of the Junction Butte Lava Flow which is about 2.2 Millions years old.

On the other side of the river at Calcite Falls pull-out, one sees a rock cross-section like the following:

Lamar Valley Entrance - Rocks are Precambrian and are estimated to be 2.7 Million Years old

Petrified Wood in Lamar River Valley