Geobulletin alpha

Marking time 

One thing all geologists want to know is the age of the rock they are looking at and the most common way of doing that is by looking at the fossil assemblage in the sediments. When working with a thin core from the bottom of the ocean as we do here we are obviously not likely to find a fossil horse or a dinosaur but instead we rely on microfossils that represent the ancient plankton of the ocean. read

From the collections room (Calippus) 

I recently received an email requesting information about fossil horses from Virginia. To my amazement, I discovered that I had never done a blog post on the Carmel Church horse; a truly remarkable achievement considering how much I talk about Carmel Church!Our first horse at the quarry was discovered by Brett during our July 2001 excavation. I only have one photo of the specimen in the ground, and it doesn’t look like much:The arrows are pointing to what appeared to be two teeth. These could [...]