Paleo Club Weblog » dig http://www.paleoclub.com/blog Paleontology at the South Dakota School of Mines Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:13:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Paleontology Field Camp—rain delay http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=319 http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=319#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:02:48 +0000 Jason Carr http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=319 It’s  raining here in Sundance WY. The Litle Houston Quarry is soaked and no work can be done today. But this provides an excellent oppertunity to post some pictures.

]]> http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=319 0 Paleontology Field Camp—week one http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=312 http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=312#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:10:40 +0000 Jason Carr http://www.paleoclub.com/blog/?p=312 Week one of paleo field camp at the Little Houston Quarry in Sundance Wyoming has conlcluded. The quarry has been reopened after 10 years, and we spent the majority of the week mapping out the bone bed. (getting the contextual data—where the fossil was found is just as important removing as the bone itself.)

On Friday we made a trip to Devil’s Tower National Monument, a volcanic neck that played a role in Stephen Speilberg’s sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

We’re all excited about next week, when we hope to be able to remove a large sauropod femur.

photos are on the Museum of Geology’s facebook page here

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