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Burrows on Burrows
Ordovician Thalassinoides in the Grand Rapids Uplands, Manitoba Thalassinoides covers a glacially-polished horizontal surface in the Grand Rapids Uplands (scale bar is in centimetres). The concept of...
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Took the words right out of my mouth.
This anonymous graffito was chalked onto the sidewalk in Virden, Manitoba, last week, strategically placed below a beautifully Thalassinoides-mottled, Fisherites-laden wall. It was so good to see that...
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Marmora
Today was a nearly fossil-free day of fossil-hunting in southern Ontario. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and enjoy the landscape . . . and of course, tomorrow we might find those...
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By Misty Crags
Stony Mountain Quarries, October 16th In normal daylight, the old west pit at Stony Mountain is really not all that much to look at: just another post-industrial landscape. Sure, for the paleontologist...
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Stonewall Striations
On the same October morning that we visited Stony Mountain, we also drove a few kilometres northwestward to Stonewall Quarry Park. There, we examined strata of the Stonewall Formation, deposited in a...
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Late Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstätten in Manitoba
Fossils from the Airport Cove site, part 1: spectacular examples of dasycladalean green algae on bedding plane surfaces (The Manitoba Museum, MM B-339, B-340). Canada is remarkably rich in...
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Death Horizon
Cephalopods belonging to the genus Kinaschukoceras, spread across a bedding plane surface When people discuss the extinction of dinosaurs and its possible cause by catastrophic events, one question...
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Guidebook: The Ordovician-Silurian Boundary in the Williston Basin
The field trip group visits roadcut exposure of the famous t-marker, in the Grand Rapids Uplands. The t-marker (mostly represented by the red layer in this image) is associated with the HICE...
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Surveying Mount Sylvan
Ah, Mount Sylvan. Such a magnificent sight. And nearby, those huge rocky cliffs reach up to the sky! I admit this is not really such a grand landscape as it might first appear. In Manitoba’s Interlake...
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Portage Chute
Churchill River, Manitoba: August 24, 2014 From Portage Chute to Bad Cache Rapids, the entire riverbed is an unconformity. Heading south from Churchill, the helicopter follows the river for the first...
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