Fossils and Geology of Lanark County, Ontario
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Reports of the Trace Fossil Climactichnites found in Central Texas
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The title for this posting is based in part on a poster presentation at a recent Geological Society of America Conference: the South-Centra...
Thursday, 16 July 2015
Burrows or Not Burrows - Part 2
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Below are photographs of three more specimens from the Potsdam Group sandstones. Specimen 6 - Same sandstone as produced the Protichnite...
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Burrows or Not Burrows?
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Adolf Seilacher (1925 – 2014) was a German palaeontologist who made major contributions to the study of trace fossils. He is credited with...
Friday, 5 June 2015
Hunting for Whales in Eastern Ontario - Part 2
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In my last posting I mentioned that Professor J. W. Dawson of McGill University had described the finding in 1882 of two vertebrae, a part o...
Friday, 24 April 2015
Hunting for Whales in Eastern Ontario
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I expect that everyone in Eastern Ontario with an interest in geology is aware that the Champlain Sea was a brackish arm of the Atlantic Oce...
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Dr. Edward Van Cortlandt, M.D., (1805-1875) of Bytown and Ottawa, Surgeon, Field Naturalist, Museum Curator and Amateur Geologist
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“ This gentleman is well known in scientific and other circles as a mineralogist, geologist, botanist and physician of considera...
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