Feasting in Fossil Lake - Fossil Butte National Monument, WY
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Feasting in Fossil Lake sign at Fossil Butte National Monument.
Waymark Code: WMBZTE
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 07/08/2011
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This sign is located on the way to the Visitor Center at Fossil Butte National Monument. The sign reads as follows:
Topping the high ridges that surround us are rock layers formed from sediments deposited on the bottom of Fossil Lake about fifty million years ago.
The lake and its encircling mountains basked in sub-tropical sunshine and bathed in torrential rainstorms. Sometimes the lake overflowed. When its waters returned, loaded with organic nutrients, the algae bloomed.
These abundant crops of algae furnished the food essential to sustain the lake's species-diverse food chain.
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