List of National Natural Landmarks in Montana facts for kids
From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Montana. There are 10 in total.
| Name | Image | Date | Location | County | Ownership | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bug Creek Fossil Area | 1966 | McCone | federal (Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge) | Produced abundant remains of small, Cretaceous mammals. | ||
| 2 | Bridger Fossil Area | 1973 | Carbon | federal (Bureau of Land Management) | Contains fossils of Deinonychus antirrhopus. | ||
| 3 | Cloverly Formation Site | 1973 | Big Horn | tribal land (Crow Nation) | Contains early Cretaceous vertebrate fossils. | ||
| 4 | Capitol Rock | 1976 | Carter | federal (Custer National Forest) | A remnant of the once continuous blanket of Tertiary deposits that covered much of the Great Plains. | ||
| 5 | Glacial Lake Missoula |  |
1966 | Sanders | private | Contains the best examples of giant flood ripples in the North American continent. | |
| 6 | Hell Creek Fossil Area | 1966 | Garfield | mixed- state, private | The type locality for Tyrannosaurus rex, Ankylosaurus magniventris, and Brachychampsa fontana fossils. | ||
| 7 | Middle Fork Canyon | 1977 | Gallatin | federal (Bureau of Land Management) | An outstanding example of a canyon cut across the grain of the geologic structure by a superposed stream. | ||
| 8 | Medicine Lake Site | 1980 | Sheridan | federal (Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge) | An exceptional example of the processes of continental glaciation, including till, outwash, eskers, kames, and terrace deposits. | ||
| 9 | Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge |  |
1966 | Beaverhead | federal | A series of relatively undisturbed, high-altitude ecosystem types representative of pre-European settlement conditions. | |
| 10 | Square Butte (mountain) | 1980 | Chouteau | federal (Bureau of Land Management) | One of the best examples of banded magmatic rock in the United States. |
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