National Park Service
Date of this Version
2014
Citation
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Abstract
The purpose of Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is
• to protect the Miocene epoch fossils and associated quarries and related geological phenomena
• to provide a center for continuing paleontological research and for the display and interpretation of Miocene epoch fossils
• to curate, exhibit, and protect the James H. Cook–Red Cloud Native American collection
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