The PEFO Tepees.jpg

Generated illustration of a landscape: mountain ridges, forest slopes, a lake and a coastline under a wide sky; no photograph from the records. — Site illustration for the landscapes collection.

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Collection Featured pictures of landscapes · Commons page id 11,931,890

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What this Commons file record states

File title: The PEFO Tepees.jpg
Artist: Finetooth
Credit: Own work
Description: The Tepees in Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona , United States. View is toward the northwest from the main park road. According to a National Park Service (NPS) document , rock strata exposed in the Tepees area of the park belong to the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation and are about 220 to 225 million years old. The colorful bands of mudstone and sandstone were laid down during the Triassic , when the area was part of a huge tropical floodplain .
Capture date: 2010-10-04
Date as the record states it: 2010-10-04
Width: 4,288 px
Height: 2,536 px
Megapixels: 10.9
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Licence URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Collection: Featured pictures of landscapes
Commons file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_PEFO_Tepees.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/The_PEFO_Tepees.jpg

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