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oregon painted hills

Colorful layers of minerals create bands of color at Painted Hills State park, Oregon. The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid

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Colorful layers of minerals create bands of color at Painted Hills State park, Oregon. The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid