TOUR 2017
Museum Tour and Fossil Trip Saturday June 24th, 2017
This is the first tour after the renovations. Build and they will come I guess!
And for the first time it was a combined fossil trip which made for a long day.
This is the first tour after the renovations. Build and they will come I guess!
And for the first time it was a combined fossil trip which made for a long day.
From left to right, Lisa the group organizer, Andrew my young apprentice,
yours truly and Carol assistant to the introduction and trip.
yours truly and Carol assistant to the introduction and trip.
After the opening introduction on fossils folks took the museum tour
Andrew loved the Sinclair Dino gas pump
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After the museum tour at Goodwood Baptist Church we headed 1 hour North to the fossil site. It was raining every other day here in Southern Ontario. Saturday fit into the non rain day slot. God's timing eh!
After a brief lunch break at Pioneer Baptist Church in Norland we headed over to the quarry. Pioneer Baptist Church kindly lets us use the facilities during the fossil trips!
And away they go! The dominant fossils found here today were Bathyurus trilobite bits and cephalopods
I always get nervous the first 20 minutes or so when people don't find anything but I remind them before hand that you have to train your eye to look for fossils. The finds start to come trickling in now. The first significant fossil found by Joshua................
Another happy camper. Shinta found the best cephalopod of the day. These straight shelled fossil cephalopods are similar to the coiled shelled squid like creatures living today "The Nautilus" .............
Kristo found the best trilobite slab of the day............
End of the day conclusion.......
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After a lesson in safety the group was let loose to look for fossils
......A middle section of a Bathyurus Trilobite. Positive and negative impression.
...................Close-up of the cephalopod.
Andrew also added a cephalopod to his collection
Very impressive as you first drive into this quarry
.............2 almost complete bathyurus trilobites.
Identifying a fossil
No evolution was found today. There were living fossils found such as the crinoid, creatures producing after their own kind! And there were extinct fossil creatures found, such as the trilobite and the straight coned nautiloid. Losing species is the opposite of evolution.
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After the fossil trip conclusion everyone headed back home and Carol and I headed for the second site. We had to cut this site out of the program for this group due to time because of the added museum tour.
Carol at site 2
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I was just saying to Carol that I needed a better zipper invertebrate trackway and voila, The Lord provided this multi track specimen. After a trim this will be placed in the museum. Trackways are great evidence of quick burial and quick hardening of sediments. A great end to an already great day!
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