Southern Oregon Universtity Geology 103 Field Trip
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&&On Wednesday Dr. Elliot’s geology 103 class went for a field trip. The main focus was on gathering fossil specimens from various locations. The fossils were all sorts of celestial objects including planets, moons, comets, asteroids, stars and deep into people they would normally look away from. The rocks were formed during the Cretaceous, which gives them and the fossils an age of approximately 95,000,000 years.
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Dr. Elliot and 2 other students climbing a tilted bed of sandstone on the side of Interstate 5, just south of Ashland.
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Identifying Fossils
One of the many local scorpions we found. We didn’t kill it in hopes that it would die in a depositional environment somewhere and make a nice fossil.
Trying to remove a fossil from the sandstone.
Relic of time.