Museum News Fall 2011
Southern Ontario Creation/Flood Evidence Museum.
1 Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
2 Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.
3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
4 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.
Psalm 105:1-4
In This Issue:
1) Cheltenham Badlands.
2)Craigleith Fossil Trip.
3) Hungry Hollow.
4) Redeemer University.
5) Museum Boost.
6) Fossil Site Search.
7) John Mackay Coming to Ontario Feb. 2012.
Southern Ontario Creation/Flood Evidence Museum.
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Psalm 105:1-4
In This Issue:
1) Cheltenham Badlands.
2)Craigleith Fossil Trip.
3) Hungry Hollow.
4) Redeemer University.
5) Museum Boost.
6) Fossil Site Search.
7) John Mackay Coming to Ontario Feb. 2012.
It's been a very busy Summer for Creation Research in Ontario starting with a ministry stop with John Mackay and Vance Nelson.
CHELTENHAM BADLANDS
First was a trip to the badlands. What? badlands in Ontario? That's right! They're called the Cheltenham Badlands near Toronto Ontario.
CHELTENHAM BADLANDS
First was a trip to the badlands. What? badlands in Ontario? That's right! They're called the Cheltenham Badlands near Toronto Ontario.
Vance Nelson standing in the middle of the Cheltenham Badlands. He was particularly interested in this site being from Alberta.
They look amazingly like the Drumheller Badlands in Alberta. More amazingly is how long these Cheltenham Badlands took to form. 10'000 years? 1 Million? In this case the best person to ask is a local farmer. The Cheltenham Badlands Is made up of weathered Queenston shale. In the early 1900s trees were cut down to allow for a cattle pasture. The protective layer of vegetation was removed and the shale began to erode. By 1931 the land was no longer useful for farming. From that time to the present only 80 plus years has elapsed. Far faster than any uniformitarian rates of erosion. This quick erosion rate forces us to rethink all erosion rates especially Drumheller.
Research Team, Martin Legemaate, Stan Jerry, Dave Milligan, Ian Juby and Vance Nelson.
CRAIGLEITH FOSSIL TRIP
It was a great start to July with a fossil trip to Craigleith Ontario with Goodwood Baptist Church. Early bird guests were able to view Creation Research's Ontario Fossil Museum housed in the church.
It was a great start to July with a fossil trip to Craigleith Ontario with Goodwood Baptist Church. Early bird guests were able to view Creation Research's Ontario Fossil Museum housed in the church.
Guests enjoying a tour through the museum
Up at Craigleith the Whitby Formation oil shale is exposed along Georgian Bay revealing a huge fossil trilobite graveyard (a formation is sedimentary rock layers that are distinctly different from the top and bottom layers).
Trip host John Mackay speaking to crowd
Most fossils were found to be washed in and all bashed up including this complete but jumbled up trilobite found by Peter.
Peter and trilobite
Amazing jumbled trilobite. Can you spot the head, tail and middle section?
Coming on board the trip was Vance Nelson (Creation Truth Ministries), Ian Juby (Director of C.O.R.E. Citizens for Origins Research and Education) and Martin Legemaate( Ontario Museum Curator) so there was no shortage of information at the guests fingertips!
Vance Nelson and Ian Juby enjoying a day of rock splitting
FOSSIL TRIP FEEDBACK
Hi Martin
I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work in organizing the field trip. We really enjoyed our day! Always enjoy hearing the knowledge God has imparted to you, Vance, Dr. Mackay and others. It’s a great way to confirm to our children that we have an awesome God and creator. We will be praying for you as you continue to develop the museum and begin doing field trips.
Thanks again. Marlene Hanzelka
Thanks again for putting together an altogether fascinating day. We all loved it.
Faith Kennedy
Martin,
I just want to take this opportunity to thank you again for your work much before and on Saturday. I was grateful to be a part of the experience. I typically miss most of the intricacies of what was being discussed so it was a good time of learning for me. Thank you for your work and I trust God will continue to bless you and your family in the days ahead.
Geoff Guch
Hello Martin,
Thank you for accommodating us on the day of the Field Trip up in Collingwood. It was so much fun.
Please include us in your email newsletters for future trips and activities. Thanks.
Rob Virginia and Jadon Smith
Hi Martin
I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work in organizing the field trip. We really enjoyed our day! Always enjoy hearing the knowledge God has imparted to you, Vance, Dr. Mackay and others. It’s a great way to confirm to our children that we have an awesome God and creator. We will be praying for you as you continue to develop the museum and begin doing field trips.
Thanks again. Marlene Hanzelka
Thanks again for putting together an altogether fascinating day. We all loved it.
Faith Kennedy
Martin,
I just want to take this opportunity to thank you again for your work much before and on Saturday. I was grateful to be a part of the experience. I typically miss most of the intricacies of what was being discussed so it was a good time of learning for me. Thank you for your work and I trust God will continue to bless you and your family in the days ahead.
Geoff Guch
Hello Martin,
Thank you for accommodating us on the day of the Field Trip up in Collingwood. It was so much fun.
Please include us in your email newsletters for future trips and activities. Thanks.
Rob Virginia and Jadon Smith
The Whitby oil shale is actually now called the Collingwood member of the Lindsay formation. Locals will notice that these names are all Ontario town names. Rock formation names have nothing to do with millions and millions of years but are usually named after the area where the formation was first studied or where it is most exposed on the surface. It is here in Craigleith that they used to extract the oil from the shale in the 1800s using cumbersome methods until they discovered liquid oil in the Sarnia area. This oil is great evidence that the shale was laid down rapidly by water, trapping plant and animal matter and preserving their remains as oil before they were able to rot. But this was just a local flood right? Some may conclude that only a local flood occurred here at Craiglieth but let’s look at some more evidence.
KING SIZED BED!
The same shale bed runs underneath Southern Ontario and is exposed along Lake Ontario from Pickering to Bowmanville 100s of kms away.
KING SIZED BED!
The same shale bed runs underneath Southern Ontario and is exposed along Lake Ontario from Pickering to Bowmanville 100s of kms away.
Mitchell Milligan on a field trip in Whitby collecting in the Whitby Formation oil shale many kms. away from Craigleith.
The same fossils are found here as in Craigleith but these are pyriteized (turned into metal).
Whitby Formation shale outcrop in St. Marys Quarry, Bowmanville.
A sizeable bed so far but geological maps show outcrops on Manitoulin Island and Sudbury and in the museum collection are rock samples collected from Ottawa all the way to Lac St. Jean Quebec of the same bed!
Here are some more facts on this formation.
The Whitby Shale runs under New York State and is called the Utica Shale. In Pennsylvania it is called the Antes shale. It is a continuous belt from the central Appalachians to the Maritime Provinces. Ref. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NE/finalprogram/abstract_30079.htm
It covers thousands of square miles. Thicknesses vary from tens of feet to over 1000 feet. It’s part of the Appalachian Basin and it also extends westward into Indiana 800 km away. Ref. Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 40th Annual Meeting (March 14-16, 2005) Paper No. 1-10
This massive formation is considered to be the source rock of both gas and oil production in Ontario Quebec and New York State. Ref. Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 40th Annual Meeting (March 14-16, 2005) Paper No. 1-10
Conclusion
Only a massive quick burial of plant and animal matter can produce this bed of oil bearing shale stretching along Provinces and across States. Geologists should finally connect these large formations with the great flood in Noah’s day.
Here are some more facts on this formation.
The Whitby Shale runs under New York State and is called the Utica Shale. In Pennsylvania it is called the Antes shale. It is a continuous belt from the central Appalachians to the Maritime Provinces. Ref. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002NE/finalprogram/abstract_30079.htm
It covers thousands of square miles. Thicknesses vary from tens of feet to over 1000 feet. It’s part of the Appalachian Basin and it also extends westward into Indiana 800 km away. Ref. Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 40th Annual Meeting (March 14-16, 2005) Paper No. 1-10
This massive formation is considered to be the source rock of both gas and oil production in Ontario Quebec and New York State. Ref. Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section, 40th Annual Meeting (March 14-16, 2005) Paper No. 1-10
Conclusion
Only a massive quick burial of plant and animal matter can produce this bed of oil bearing shale stretching along Provinces and across States. Geologists should finally connect these large formations with the great flood in Noah’s day.
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Does this shale really contain significant amounts of oil to create a flame?
Find out in this oil shale burn test video!
Does this shale really contain significant amounts of oil to create a flame?
Find out in this oil shale burn test video!
Drop by the museum and see the new Whitby Shale exhibit.
HUNGRY HOLLOW FOSSIL TRIP
The LORD provided abundant fossil material and catastrophic evidence far exceeding our expectations on a 2 day fossil collecting trip to Hungry Hollow Ontario. This is a renowned site and have met people that came from the U.S. and even Germany to collect. Why so popular? Because instead of the fossils being in a sedimentary rock matrix they are in clay. As the clay quickly erodes away the fossils fall out and can be picked up off the ground. No hammer necessary!
Kawartha rock and fossil club members chat before starting the day.
Collecting in the clay, Danny Vanstemp and Miriam Legemaate.
Club members crossing the river to get to a number of clay exposures.
Mucrospirifer brachiopods picked up out of the clay
Unfossilized fossils? Exactly! Many shelled fossils are found unfossilized showing the pearly shell intact due to the nature in which they were buried.
Mucrospirifer brachiopods showing pearly shell in clay before they were picked out of the clay.
These are Middle Devonian considered to be 350 million years old but only a recent flood can better explain such amazing preservation.
Peter Lee finds an amazing trilobite in a clay pit.
Martin Legemaate pointing to the Hungry Hollow Formation with the Widder Formation above and the Arkona Formation below.
The best collecting is at the river bed as it cuts through several formations leaving a "window" into the strata. Some amazingly preserved horn coral in the Hungry Hollow Formation are revealed but not in nice neat colonies as the text books show but rather faced in all directions with many washed in laying down and even upside down.
Horn coral washed in.
horn coral upside down.
This bed clearly shows another of many fossil dump deposits in Ontario. Many museum fossil upgrades were provided on this trip.
MUSEUM NEWS
A third fossil display was set up by Martin Legemaate and Gary Chiang at Redeemer University in Ancaster Ontario providing an outlet for the young earth creationist view.
A third fossil display was set up by Martin Legemaate and Gary Chiang at Redeemer University in Ancaster Ontario providing an outlet for the young earth creationist view.
Curator Martin Legemaate and Professor Dr. Gary Chiang in front of new display.
The top shelf displays bridge stalactites showing that they don't need thousands of years to form. Just the right processes!
The middle shelf displays amazing intelligently designed curled ammonite shells along with their extinct cousins the straight coned nautiloid. These nautiloids come from all over Ontario but have one thing in common. They were all found pointing in a NW-SE direction indicating a province wide fast flowing water current. Finally the bottom shelf displays some interesting fossilized stumps and wood explaining that not all wood is fossilized in so called "million year old" strata.
The middle shelf displays amazing intelligently designed curled ammonite shells along with their extinct cousins the straight coned nautiloid. These nautiloids come from all over Ontario but have one thing in common. They were all found pointing in a NW-SE direction indicating a province wide fast flowing water current. Finally the bottom shelf displays some interesting fossilized stumps and wood explaining that not all wood is fossilized in so called "million year old" strata.
Working on the 3rd display.
Here’s what Gary says about the new display.
“Martin's third cabinet display has added a wonderful dimension to the entire three cabinets of the Creation/Flood Evidence Museum here at Redeemer. They look amazing. Within these cabinets, set in a high traffic area in our university, people have a wonderful opportunity to see how the scientific evidence can be explained in terms of a major catastrophic event. We have also included evolution literature to give some balance to the display. When presented in this fashion, it is difficult not to interpret evolution as a poor, if not convoluted explanation of the facts. On the other hand, Creationism is shown to be clear and completely scientific. Thank you Martin”.
Pray for wisdom for Gary as students ask questions about the displays in a university setting that can be hostile toward the young earth view.
Pray for wisdom for Gary as students ask questions about the displays in a university setting that can be hostile toward the young earth view.
The museum got a real boost of fossils this Summer with the Hungry Hollow collection and with the adding of John Mackay’s Ontario collection. Thanks also to Vance Nelson for a fine donation of dinosaur footprints from a quarry in South Hadley Massachusetts.
Dinosaur footprints at the quarry before removal.
Chiseled out and enhanced footprints ready for museum display.
The 200 square foot museum can now double in size with the amount of fossils in storage so we are currently looking for donations of used show cases (or the funds to purchase used) Contact curator Martin Legemaate at: [email protected]
FOSSIL SITE SEARCH
It was an interesting visit to “Hockley Pit” a gravel pit in Uxbridge Ontario owned by Ken Hockley a member of Goodwood Baptist Church and museum supporter. This Pleistocene (ice age) pit revealed some fascinating (insitu) gravel stalactites as excavators were removing the top layer.
It was an interesting visit to “Hockley Pit” a gravel pit in Uxbridge Ontario owned by Ken Hockley a member of Goodwood Baptist Church and museum supporter. This Pleistocene (ice age) pit revealed some fascinating (insitu) gravel stalactites as excavators were removing the top layer.
The top section is hard rock made out of cemented gravel conglomerate with the stalactites hanging down into the underlying loose gravel. The cementing agents must have seeped in from above moving downward creating these interesting structures.
A close up look at the hanging insitu stalactites
stalactite pulled off from the matrix.
Ripple marks were found on the top surface indication the presence of water.
It is interesting to note that the process of cement making by man already occurs in nature! The unique geological phenomenon of insitu gravel stalactites is unknown to occur anywhere else.
Collecting sites like these for groups are becoming harder and harder to find. Quarries are closing their doors to collectors due to insurance reasons and other significant sites are being enclosed in parks and thus off limits to hammers. Pray that Creation Research Ontario can locate a site unimpeded by signs, fences and traffic. Ideally a small Ma and Pa quarry operation would work the best for groups.
Can you help?
Contact Martin Legemaate if you know of a possible collecting site for groups in the Southern Ontario area.
Collecting sites like these for groups are becoming harder and harder to find. Quarries are closing their doors to collectors due to insurance reasons and other significant sites are being enclosed in parks and thus off limits to hammers. Pray that Creation Research Ontario can locate a site unimpeded by signs, fences and traffic. Ideally a small Ma and Pa quarry operation would work the best for groups.
Can you help?
Contact Martin Legemaate if you know of a possible collecting site for groups in the Southern Ontario area.
John Mackay in 2012.
John Mackay International Director of Creation Research Australia is coming to Ontario in February 2012.
Book your church or homeschooling event soon.
Homeschool day programs include, A) Creation Genesis 1,2,3, The Evidence, B) Noah's Flood and Fossils, C) The Tower of Babel and Beyond.
For details on the programs visit www.creationresearch.net then click programs and locate the home schooling group category.
For other details contact Martin Legemaate at : [email protected]