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The Permian in Montana, US

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Paleontology and geology

Uplift during the Late Carboniferous created highlands over most of Montana. During the Permian, these areas experienced erosion. The only deposits from this period consist of a thin blanket of marine sediments in the southeast resulting from a brief incursion of a shallow sea.


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