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