tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83538876279037940332024-03-05T13:51:22.171-05:00Notes from a Peabody Fossil HunterAli Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-23899572139320724822008-08-21T01:08:00.006-04:002008-08-23T22:52:49.263-04:00Analyzing the fossils back at the Peabody<blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';">After returning to the Peabody Vertebrate Paleontology lab, fossil preparators and museum scientists have established a list of finds. It includes fragmentary remains of</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Triceratops</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';">,</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Edmontosaurus</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';">,</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';"> Ornithomimus</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';">, various smaller theropod and bird remains, soft-shelled turtles, baenid turtles, adocid turtles, compsemydid turtles, mud and snapping turtles, champsosaurs, crocodilians, salamanders, bowfin fish, and gars. As you can see, it was a very successful field season!</span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:14px;"><br /></span></div></span><img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg3GFCCnvkRMmvBn7mPYyUJ_cCjOHKnr_1nOM4W7UpInFwTq_wNighdEDe-vxeV5Royz-3GLeg5cQs651IY1voPo3mr6kMtJYoLszQMj777CzB6xSeLRXHL5ZOlwbVwL8vGsVkHvtKC7pe/s400/DSC00145.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236834690385341314" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Hail Yale!<br /></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;font-size:10px;"><br /></span></div></span></span>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-10491794775107429172008-08-21T00:55:00.003-04:002008-08-21T01:20:10.696-04:00Some final 2008 field shots:<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbPN_yBoYwnwHbdUDji_IWY_QReqVEZeqaaTeSC8867146ZSd-htf_XVrp4ltfHJdlakw_ni_1AFbuzq3KPmu_rcFVUfhlM0rPEB8w5PRnAJl2WPV3naHeCLpb518f2uSEIMjS_rPRXs_a/s1600-h/DSC00152.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPf1ZvBp4XJ7Ktrc7DOmmVWJnsRYxzIGpXA-HyyYVVamcEvdydmxXBJsqoPv_HdJaX7dush4h7viRJXub0QlSs-eGjIg8FJFapZgZrZ78VKHLfX9r56WGdO3oaN4BrqFAo-nkf9A5AqULp/s400/DSC00092.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236831459442455202" /></a><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-57375889394739448112008-08-07T11:23:00.003-04:002008-08-07T11:37:58.628-04:00More shots from the field!<div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1B3QJ7IlJUuBCZKui79ErrQtME7daenf99baNhCpqXjzy1DGBjiTw2nDRJGLV7GOMJXzd8xhkdhGoF6okDP8UFLNcBLcQhTVaUXaYNLEdb9brXUSRVnn3qXzlt0MkmD_wVui59ziRDk0/s1600-h/DSC00316.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvjQwBzXW6jGokMjpXiCW2CouM0iu-WQAjA82vuV21LbN4urkWUQ4RUA1wlCW0zGDB5sMCeLJfsLoJ_vSFc0XhgE3y1ny9DStkwv_1bRRVV7vSMp5hs9Rg-LzpRtl4QOo1gAjlhvHArkG/s400/DSC00167.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231797083907943314" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-88277885766611662802008-07-28T16:50:00.006-04:002008-07-28T16:56:08.976-04:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our final group shot before hitting the road: </span></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUROZH8uspO_DB1TCE0I_88UG9WtXnavyxiJSvDjVvyBhpbhoP6ls-VDMcr-3KwqXc8Km6ZIKKIK-2fTpMeP_7ItwmyzumYnlas032tzMn9Hatl2NXrSwVsI3OXfJM9Fw2yIFMXWRjRIO1/s1600-h/DSC00314.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUROZH8uspO_DB1TCE0I_88UG9WtXnavyxiJSvDjVvyBhpbhoP6ls-VDMcr-3KwqXc8Km6ZIKKIK-2fTpMeP_7ItwmyzumYnlas032tzMn9Hatl2NXrSwVsI3OXfJM9Fw2yIFMXWRjRIO1/s400/DSC00314.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228171075907143890" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:48px;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">From left: Ariel Revan, Aleck Zhou, Laura Wilson, Walter Joyce, Eric Sargis, Jacob McCartney and Ali Logan (me).</span></span></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-19974389031338867542008-07-28T16:22:00.013-04:002008-07-31T14:12:09.556-04:00Our Final Day!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpj6_MnFexcnI_QT4MN6wAR7eokZgHlDMcLCvHfYEk6i_LXYXuFk5srsc_EpWRjScrFI6xNki00y9Uufh9bBqLdV5LUoDWSrRJ_Ni3PkkSVRTFHXqoIrBBr8Q6BrWszRqlV5dpJJkSGPYh/s1600-h/DSC00312.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpj6_MnFexcnI_QT4MN6wAR7eokZgHlDMcLCvHfYEk6i_LXYXuFk5srsc_EpWRjScrFI6xNki00y9Uufh9bBqLdV5LUoDWSrRJ_Ni3PkkSVRTFHXqoIrBBr8Q6BrWszRqlV5dpJJkSGPYh/s400/DSC00312.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229242581362080642" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrUKfgKfWwjtMlx8s-IzRUy1vz7iey53ejLZ6FaEnMWFYZkC-pvXBD-ry2dXsxqXYt3lt_nPtsAv5tf3WQC5nkD5TYTAkEAA9oGQ9Kkkhhappm7Q5yYtKCYInozkh5wgBPt3scg7bNRr0/s1600-h/DSC00311.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrUKfgKfWwjtMlx8s-IzRUy1vz7iey53ejLZ6FaEnMWFYZkC-pvXBD-ry2dXsxqXYt3lt_nPtsAv5tf3WQC5nkD5TYTAkEAA9oGQ9Kkkhhappm7Q5yYtKCYInozkh5wgBPt3scg7bNRr0/s400/DSC00311.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228166145603835650" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Our last day of the field was spent back in the Hell Creek prospecting one section that we had missed over the past three weeks. Regardless of whether we found anything exciting, the mammal team (Walter, Eric and I) were happy to be back in the comfort of fossils (and a working shower). One exciting find was the ungual (or distal) phalanx of an Ornithomimid dinosaur. This type of dinosaur probably looked a lot like an ostrich and was either herbivorous or omnivorous. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The front limbs of this animal were long and slender yielding powerful claws like the one that we found.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzG_0cGXtRjeXeIIDg3dzLba7WGqW3ZpJ49JOrDV34pQlYoWLszRcPqeHveVCPMgqk7i6mzYTLEIrTZIYZp9YWys-UpQvwcvZXY93iVjlHQImNwdQRuS863io4ca-ikwHs0ynLwuYs28s/s1600-h/282px-Struthiomimus_sedens_manus.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 474px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzG_0cGXtRjeXeIIDg3dzLba7WGqW3ZpJ49JOrDV34pQlYoWLszRcPqeHveVCPMgqk7i6mzYTLEIrTZIYZp9YWys-UpQvwcvZXY93iVjlHQImNwdQRuS863io4ca-ikwHs0ynLwuYs28s/s400/282px-Struthiomimus_sedens_manus.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228820882250562914" border="0" /></a>Photo of Struthiomimus claws from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.<br /><div><br /></div></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-21146979491474963252008-07-26T22:58:00.015-04:002010-04-01T16:16:16.715-04:00Photographic recap of the past week themed: Lotsa stuff but no fossils..<span style="font-size:100%;">We began the week in Theodore Roosevelt State Park optimistic for fossil turtles, reptiles, and mammals. Only one other paper had been published explaining where these types of Paleocene fossils (65-55 million years old) found within the park. We didn't have access to this paper, so we relied on park ranger word of mouth and set out on what seemed a wild-goose fossil chase. I am standing in front of the colorful but vertical buttes that we scaled during our four day stint in the Paleocene.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwm42GMHeSv0AWGhJ2uo7dx6K_kwZ-NB8h6CoHggFDCvpFEeFwSrYvcNxlHRRWlY2jEuL7PZY4YpF1kpnkC4xfRuJfPF-zOcJFIgU3rCheOdoxPZFSX335bq3cKh-fBE5Hl4JNKRfq09w/s1600-h/DSC00232.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKwm42GMHeSv0AWGhJ2uo7dx6K_kwZ-NB8h6CoHggFDCvpFEeFwSrYvcNxlHRRWlY2jEuL7PZY4YpF1kpnkC4xfRuJfPF-zOcJFIgU3rCheOdoxPZFSX335bq3cKh-fBE5Hl4JNKRfq09w/s400/DSC00232.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227535527917736034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">We knew we were in trouble on the very first day in the Park because we didn't find a single bone scrap. The area was blanketed with petrified wood fossils, usually a bad omen for fossil seekers because you tend </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >not </span><span style="font-size:100%;">to find both types in the same area. Also, the area was much more vegetated compared to the dry and arid environments of the southern, Hell Creek-badlands in Marmarth.</span> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYtUun0mMKmsc5S79iKrF4MOnZNLfdSfDpW_7Lw3TO6E7H_5JycEIAy5TplJcwC0ZyAWMRPEyrdgyI9a-Y6J3DHpItVg88yMKH9RfT1Szv7dPrrjUk280JJt49zPaT2nmFx6XyAAd5O6q/s1600-h/DSC00269.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYtUun0mMKmsc5S79iKrF4MOnZNLfdSfDpW_7Lw3TO6E7H_5JycEIAy5TplJcwC0ZyAWMRPEyrdgyI9a-Y6J3DHpItVg88yMKH9RfT1Szv7dPrrjUk280JJt49zPaT2nmFx6XyAAd5O6q/s400/DSC00269.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227523791407789010" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Near the end of the second day in the National Park, our spirits were low and we were desperate for anything. At least the breathtaking sights offered some sort of consolation. </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SIvnK6d27VI/AAAAAAAAAHw/_qPJxIXPHmc/s1600-h/DSC00281.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SIvnK6d27VI/AAAAAAAAAHw/_qPJxIXPHmc/s400/DSC00281.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227525967172791634" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It was also VERY exciting when Walter caught this Rat snake...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixD_0lYWE1CPAQo03HO8cOru2FrQoeoS8pqpaUEz8DzYnMq-Xt9cm03iHOwW4WE0fdbkuJcO6V_gtS2TAzPZMClZ42kNTHEC5A9vUGe_-YqFX3q60Ggu2fIqTxHy5VdFR4TdesCcUBJC0s/s1600-h/DSC00275.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixD_0lYWE1CPAQo03HO8cOru2FrQoeoS8pqpaUEz8DzYnMq-Xt9cm03iHOwW4WE0fdbkuJcO6V_gtS2TAzPZMClZ42kNTHEC5A9vUGe_-YqFX3q60Ggu2fIqTxHy5VdFR4TdesCcUBJC0s/s400/DSC00275.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227526922747766994" border="0" /></a><br />and I found an enormous Elk antler.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVOsKsV2a5d5412KikAuiU-p0R3_jL_FVQxo-BaOkFPzAqZ8Weep_TMkf4gzp-XNldRHVMrnwdPeZhoSWzpHx4Z8ubxXRGt4U76qLSudXzYdexaU3xc_utkHYfCNhwKuZZyqxgIbPiUBD/s1600-h/DSC00287.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigVOsKsV2a5d5412KikAuiU-p0R3_jL_FVQxo-BaOkFPzAqZ8Weep_TMkf4gzp-XNldRHVMrnwdPeZhoSWzpHx4Z8ubxXRGt4U76qLSudXzYdexaU3xc_utkHYfCNhwKuZZyqxgIbPiUBD/s400/DSC00287.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227527346456595410" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Our spirits wavered further when we returned to camp to see that we had visitors. A herd of bison infiltrated our camp ground mid-rutting season. It took us 30 minutes to wait for the pack to move on.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3G3JjRMy0RdoPOpPejRjdxU5AqKq6D3Iuc3ThgOrWVVb162EIixirDc89jUlxCgUuBciIsyKdS4ivpLC-MSDJWNRD-MRqdSUVyzBMbOlTS_k2mDsOjtTfQ7VT0K5IrioqRdXnVp0IDNI/s1600-h/DSC00258.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3G3JjRMy0RdoPOpPejRjdxU5AqKq6D3Iuc3ThgOrWVVb162EIixirDc89jUlxCgUuBciIsyKdS4ivpLC-MSDJWNRD-MRqdSUVyzBMbOlTS_k2mDsOjtTfQ7VT0K5IrioqRdXnVp0IDNI/s400/DSC00258.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227524883857460482" border="0" /></a>Though, big and hulky, these animals were incredible up-close.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_1-xUbWn3xZbix91K9DYsHOVl0lXCuR4Dhgv4syNW5-ipQ00dIy880Igw9kG2KGJrYhiecm0om0gpwveWrNDzWqbwBgGdK5_yd759BgpasZHP3Netjn8FDqVOdNvvRl_DqCyrGduOmlN/s1600-h/DSC00249.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_1-xUbWn3xZbix91K9DYsHOVl0lXCuR4Dhgv4syNW5-ipQ00dIy880Igw9kG2KGJrYhiecm0om0gpwveWrNDzWqbwBgGdK5_yd759BgpasZHP3Netjn8FDqVOdNvvRl_DqCyrGduOmlN/s400/DSC00249.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227524417323256178" border="0" /></a><br />After the bison excitement died down, we returned to the field and went the whole day w/out avail. Much needed rain, but no fossils.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmLQF3YOvFj7soVf3au4GXjeG1ka3_OzEXaWIEV4SUpOaQyJYfkfv0B_dM5c7e3LWUAW1QtZM3T3O6UIQD_vdVDYz7StKnN_FEMj6Dx2VN8da4o7ZzjFjsiiudvcxRTsgVGqqwoS2_KlN/s1600-h/DSC00298.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizmLQF3YOvFj7soVf3au4GXjeG1ka3_OzEXaWIEV4SUpOaQyJYfkfv0B_dM5c7e3LWUAW1QtZM3T3O6UIQD_vdVDYz7StKnN_FEMj6Dx2VN8da4o7ZzjFjsiiudvcxRTsgVGqqwoS2_KlN/s400/DSC00298.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227528690261910290" border="0" /></a><br />We called it quits during the middle of the fourth day and set off to Marmarth early to help finish up jackets and prospect the remaining bits of public land of North Dakota. Our spirits recovered after purchasing some local memorabelia and a relaxing night in the closest town (pop. 47).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9jcZATWGwkKCawlermtDfK_jaJwU046Pjs7-2YrDwANQZ2hCxCSoXY3WzZoabZfRxhSZup9yZamVvcXKeu4p1O-LVDkf39ddb5At9xAWWq1jIYrBms9S5i9ER6PzqFxWwbpR8ed3huHu/s1600-h/DSC00310.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC9jcZATWGwkKCawlermtDfK_jaJwU046Pjs7-2YrDwANQZ2hCxCSoXY3WzZoabZfRxhSZup9yZamVvcXKeu4p1O-LVDkf39ddb5At9xAWWq1jIYrBms9S5i9ER6PzqFxWwbpR8ed3huHu/s400/DSC00310.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227529801972459154" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-71622485995317737822008-07-20T20:36:00.009-04:002008-07-29T20:27:57.910-04:00<div style="text-align: left;"> Today we returned to Rattlesnake Butte for the third year in a row, looking for mammal jaw fragments from the Paleocene (~65 million years old). Because we have found almost half a dozen mammal jaw fragments (some with teeth) over the past two years, we returned to the site hoping for more.<span style=""> </span>Jacob, Walter and Eric are photographed sending shovelfuls of dirt and overburden through a sifter.<span style=""> </span>Like breaking up flour with a sifter, we passed the matrix sand through a thin wire mesh hoping that anything slightly larger like mammal teeth and/or jaws will remain. This is a very dirty job!<br /></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroxkzY22XyU6NbVo6GW0NI-zo3zj5XREhmhlnCiRYiJhytHdJ9IrvjUuCzzjmom4HMUfn0s_RjGnFqVPDoXAM1lvAgi6t6z2527Kc36Zf6cl8vca2Htw178y75OzdAkfp6BPC1FXaV1PL/s1600-h/DSC00221.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjroxkzY22XyU6NbVo6GW0NI-zo3zj5XREhmhlnCiRYiJhytHdJ9IrvjUuCzzjmom4HMUfn0s_RjGnFqVPDoXAM1lvAgi6t6z2527Kc36Zf6cl8vca2Htw178y75OzdAkfp6BPC1FXaV1PL/s320/DSC00221.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225260473167555298" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left; display: block; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>After spending the day painfully picking through sand and organic shale packed full with coal, we <i>finally</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> found a mammal jaw fragment. Well, Walter found one on the surface of the hill after we had sifted and dug through dirt all day.<span style=""> </span>As you can see in this picture, Ariel and I had a thick coating of grime before the day was done.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmAI1R3vvlY7A3dCWZjgWjdQ9j29ellRFgDUH28xga5HqpDPzqTnOve5C2Z6PEmXmfiysDkfEkNJkOHwOFzV99RXVKuDnvZpBTG_ySNxuxqizL7E_7RYLQHUybmvNBNDW-iTXltNNo0uS/s1600-h/DSC00224.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmAI1R3vvlY7A3dCWZjgWjdQ9j29ellRFgDUH28xga5HqpDPzqTnOve5C2Z6PEmXmfiysDkfEkNJkOHwOFzV99RXVKuDnvZpBTG_ySNxuxqizL7E_7RYLQHUybmvNBNDW-iTXltNNo0uS/s400/DSC00224.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225272308192329522" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Tomorrow part of the group will depart north to camp in the Roosevelt State Park while looking for Paleocene mammal fossils. We will be roughing it completely sans electricity and other luxuries (shower, stove, running water, blogging etc).<span style=""> </span>That said, I won’t be writing again until our return on Friday!<span style=""> </span>Wish us luck!</p> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-2250054293459489322008-07-19T15:07:00.004-04:002008-07-19T15:27:03.854-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1kdRy7cEnaI98knrSiOYxyXROTuZUbSt1j0Dr8oBGFGlClKBhwODQFtlzWdIaBQViOGx-nz977FJw0PRLoDFTjTk6vRMcIE9yS_GTdXUi8_H_XWvOZCQjNaGUN0a4qN-4GOJDtlm289V0/s1600-h/DSC00211.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SII84jTokCI/AAAAAAAAAGo/8S2z55WLV68/s1600-h/DSC00202.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SII84jTokCI/AAAAAAAAAGo/8S2z55WLV68/s320/DSC00202.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224805459951128610" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Yesterday we spent the day prospecting a square mile of sheep pasture and found only a few fruitful peaks spewing microfossil specimens (turtle/croc scutes, teeth, toe bones and verts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Here is a pile of Champsosaur verts that I found atop a mudstone butte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Champsosaurs were common late Cretaceous animals looking much like crocodiles; they do not exist today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Near the end of the day, we found ourselves in the far corner of the section facing an ominous thunderstorm. We barely made it back to the car before it began to torrentially rain. Yesterday was also the last day for two of our team members, Alana and Alan Gishlick. Here is a group photo of the first wave of Peabody fossil hunters. From left: Laura, Ariel, Alec, Jacob, Alec, Alana, Ali(me) and Walter. That's a mouthful! Today, we welcome Peabody Associate Curator of Mammalogy, Eric Sargis who is interested in early-Paleocene-mammal fossils.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1kdRy7cEnaI98knrSiOYxyXROTuZUbSt1j0Dr8oBGFGlClKBhwODQFtlzWdIaBQViOGx-nz977FJw0PRLoDFTjTk6vRMcIE9yS_GTdXUi8_H_XWvOZCQjNaGUN0a4qN-4GOJDtlm289V0/s320/DSC00211.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224808756097051298" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-12409733420024973332008-07-17T21:49:00.003-04:002008-07-17T22:04:23.626-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieGAb4zDxMTMSGMYLng3EeLi-W4vpubWCvmk3EONaSrCJBjTdGftjk08LUW8UgWlDGUjEYexU2bZB6QC8gQpfahkvszhC1EGJpnZO2fsdJ91GcxQdzRxToj4lO0bmWq2Yxx7lSW1WRB-aU/s1600-h/DSC00176.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5S3MBbtIIB0XJPc4wE114bJXTNF_o_k4B1eO25eBuEq13KQ215dh9QJjQjaauPlWQJBRt4tgG5M88naIpDMgwnPG_DYBjO4fZNGT5Ypoi1F-_Xhs7b1Xx7D4hs2xXB8upvJGzXaZxrmp/s1600-h/DSC00177.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5S3MBbtIIB0XJPc4wE114bJXTNF_o_k4B1eO25eBuEq13KQ215dh9QJjQjaauPlWQJBRt4tgG5M88naIpDMgwnPG_DYBjO4fZNGT5Ypoi1F-_Xhs7b1Xx7D4hs2xXB8upvJGzXaZxrmp/s400/DSC00177.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224166070926836882" /></a><p class="MsoNormal">We’ve covered some major ground in the past two days! Broken up into teams of four, the team and I have taken major chunks out of our allotted public land, and as you can tell from this photo, it’s not easy going. Yesterday, part of the team met with a rancher whose land we cross in order to reach some of the federal land. Although this is not a mandatory practice, we try to meet and greet all of the local ranchers so they do not wonder why strangers are stomping around their land and disturbing their cows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In our case, the rancher was eager to show us many of the areas where she has found fossils; she took us on a morning tour of her and the surrounding land.<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday, we found a partial turtle shell weathering out almost five feet up the side of a butte. Despite its inconvenient position, Walter Joyce, who happens to be a learned turtle specialist, suspects that it is a new species. We will attempt to excavate the intact remains sometime before our time here is up! Today we returned to more of the recommended sites and prospected all day long but found nothing as exciting. Here, Ariel Revan is seen in the distance on the side of a butte.</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieGAb4zDxMTMSGMYLng3EeLi-W4vpubWCvmk3EONaSrCJBjTdGftjk08LUW8UgWlDGUjEYexU2bZB6QC8gQpfahkvszhC1EGJpnZO2fsdJ91GcxQdzRxToj4lO0bmWq2Yxx7lSW1WRB-aU/s400/DSC00176.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224168941075651442" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /></span><!--StartFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-5252031189406424582008-07-15T22:49:00.002-04:002008-07-15T22:54:05.845-04:00HivesToday I got hives from wearing just-out-of-the-package, unwashed socks and swelled up like a blowfish. After two emergency benedryls and some hydrocortisone cream, I spent the day in a anti-histamine haze back at camp. I'm happy to report that I am much better, my armpits have returned to normal size and I can see out of my left eye again. I am eager to do some actual work tomorrow pending no hives! Lesson of the day: wash everything once!Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-89420976996852491392008-07-14T21:57:00.003-04:002008-07-14T22:04:09.560-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEKMp7mglnbT3mn72WY5JOnUnA4Ju98pkmc6wu0rS1mKC4OotyiIhqGwVUZT5VWUuSVDbc4nSI45ATprTuCEIpiOGeFo4Ob4D-Hcgf7PNwb64rRtTHT0Bno1tT1bDBvkmSj4-7gswiaUab/s1600-h/DSC00161.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEKMp7mglnbT3mn72WY5JOnUnA4Ju98pkmc6wu0rS1mKC4OotyiIhqGwVUZT5VWUuSVDbc4nSI45ATprTuCEIpiOGeFo4Ob4D-Hcgf7PNwb64rRtTHT0Bno1tT1bDBvkmSj4-7gswiaUab/s400/DSC00161.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223054747913568066" /></a>Very tired today, so my apologies for this post's brevity. Today we nearly finished quarrying all of the exposed turtles and jacketed as many as we could before the day ended. In the process, I acquired blisters upon blisters using a rock pick in clay and developed a second skin of mud. Ariel, Walter and I pose next to one of the three monumental jackets. We're too tired to even begin to imagine carrying it out tomorrow. We'll see!Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-33831621390562446572008-07-13T22:04:00.004-04:002008-07-13T22:13:22.383-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHq0kH20GOI/AAAAAAAAAGA/sG6_CVH6A1o/s1600-h/DSC00146.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHq0kH20GOI/AAAAAAAAAGA/sG6_CVH6A1o/s400/DSC00146.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222685250566756578" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Today part of our team quarried a butte yielding turtle remains from three different specimens. In this photo, Walter is using a meter stick to determine the exact position of one of the fossil turtles. I mark the location of the specimen while he looks through a level and moves up or down on the meter stick to establish its exact height. He will use this information to create a site map.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Site maps are useful because they address questions of taphonony, or how fossils form, decay and drift over time. Site maps are also helpful if an individual wants to return to the site in the future.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib_IByjJWo0KaO6FyIXCv3rCxcwVi0z9LG_NTxT_gUIo6W7PowIUOpW8phf7vnZER0f_Rispzw-KZV9ldHLphTyelzIWl1NUxvi_S8cpOeuEKLSbULR3sHmJ37aS6w15FW6c4eYhDamffh/s200/DSC00153.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222686390655278818" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition, we excavated one of the turtles and created a jacket around the exposed bone to keep it safe until we return to the museum. A jacket made of plaster acts much like a cast that supports a broken bone and prevents movement and destabilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Back at the museum, Peabody preparators will open the jacket and continue removing the fossils in a controlled environment away from damaging elements. Alana Gishlick and Walter prepare the specimen by covering the exposed fossil bone with damp tissue to protect the material from the abrasive plaster used to create the jacket. <br /></p> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-59213043689943180042008-07-11T21:55:00.005-04:002008-07-14T21:57:05.697-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ad0T7iQBUG-UdE8dPhwcJP_RUTFBgJFkXZ1Px7ERbPloB1MIe0k6fIv29XVtGDKBjhr5Flml2KN_Af1LMS_LVfRFLGnwd3E7bF9q3nMlyasC3CbTCu-cV8DyM4d8CUrns7Oth1k4CQr5/s1600-h/DSC00102.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ad0T7iQBUG-UdE8dPhwcJP_RUTFBgJFkXZ1Px7ERbPloB1MIe0k6fIv29XVtGDKBjhr5Flml2KN_Af1LMS_LVfRFLGnwd3E7bF9q3nMlyasC3CbTCu-cV8DyM4d8CUrns7Oth1k4CQr5/s400/DSC00102.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221941283554307762" /></a><p class="MsoNormal">Today, having dropped thirty degrees over night, we battled 30-45 mile per hour winds blowing everything from sand to sagebrush in our faces (notice my way cool coif). Our group split up and I was sent with the prospecting team (the other team quarried turtle carapaces).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After a significant amount of hiking through cow pastures, and suspicious looks from cows, we found a series of buttes harboring exposed areas of the Hell Creek. Although it was a struggle to do just about anything amid the powerful wind gusts, our team managed to find yet more triceratops remains!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition, we found a few small ‘microsites,’ or smaller sites usually of a particular level in the rock formation, that produce small but unarticulated specimens. These fossils often include croc and turtle shell pieces, teeth and vertebrae like this one. Tomorrow is a well-deserved day off! </p> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-59910465105577616032008-07-10T21:45:00.008-04:002008-07-10T21:56:46.556-04:00<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNCp-ljO4QsZLdS1NKtEc-AbPLEbpVrjj_inm0Hudy_Fqcf8h1hc_wXL0tHyeh6Kh6PrW6nmaygnTpvYJggwsGy5aw2jtVTQFgg286_40evV2uNI5pplhQFbRpSKaDeOtGeUVB6OkDGMO/s1600-h/DSC00116.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not only was it mercilessly hot and windy today (pushing 100 degrees), we found very few fossils.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It is mind-boggling how hit or miss fossil discoveries can be. One area might yield numerous bones when another butte a few hundred yards away produces only weathered, cruddy bone or worse, nothing at all.</span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ariel Revan marks the site of not-yet-identified dinosaur bones found yesterday. We haven’t decided to excavate this site for a couple of reasons. First, as you might see, the exposed bones are very weathered. We cannot be certain if there are better-preserved or in-situ bones behind the visible remains. Second, public land regulations allow us to only remove one-cubic meter of material –so excavating this site would require a larger excavation permit acquired through the Montana Bureau of Land Management.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNCp-ljO4QsZLdS1NKtEc-AbPLEbpVrjj_inm0Hudy_Fqcf8h1hc_wXL0tHyeh6Kh6PrW6nmaygnTpvYJggwsGy5aw2jtVTQFgg286_40evV2uNI5pplhQFbRpSKaDeOtGeUVB6OkDGMO/s1600-h/DSC00116.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span></span></span><img style="text-align: left; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNCp-ljO4QsZLdS1NKtEc-AbPLEbpVrjj_inm0Hudy_Fqcf8h1hc_wXL0tHyeh6Kh6PrW6nmaygnTpvYJggwsGy5aw2jtVTQFgg286_40evV2uNI5pplhQFbRpSKaDeOtGeUVB6OkDGMO/s400/DSC00116.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221567442201931138" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><br /></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNCp-ljO4QsZLdS1NKtEc-AbPLEbpVrjj_inm0Hudy_Fqcf8h1hc_wXL0tHyeh6Kh6PrW6nmaygnTpvYJggwsGy5aw2jtVTQFgg286_40evV2uNI5pplhQFbRpSKaDeOtGeUVB6OkDGMO/s1600-h/DSC00116.JPG" style="text-decoration: none; "></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div><!--EndFragment--></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-84219665267531003632008-07-09T08:53:00.008-04:002008-07-10T21:58:15.537-04:00First day!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHVhEpe9XtI/AAAAAAAAAFk/hIvX5BzJE38/s1600-h/DSC00096.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHVhEpe9XtI/AAAAAAAAAFk/hIvX5BzJE38/s400/DSC00096.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221186075489033938" /></a><div><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Our first day in the field proved to be very successful and hinted at a very productive field season. We returned to one of last year’s most “fossiliferous” sights and found many promising items including a pile of fossil-triceratops skull fragments. Walter Joyce holds what we believe to be one of the three horns of a triceratops. </p><p class="MsoNormal">We are working in the Hell Creek region, a geologic region known for its late Cretaceous fossils with a distinct iridium-enriched K-T boundary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This thin band of rock marks the end of the Mesozoic Era, and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, and is associated with a massive extinction caused by an asteroid that struck the earth near the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the coast of Yucatan, Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This area is especially important to researchers examining how certain organisms responded, or in the case of dinosaurs (they went completely extinct), did not respond to such a geologic event. We are returning to this site tomorrow to explore the idea of taking out the triceratops. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Picture to come!</p> <!--EndFragment--></div>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-58136958215903143342008-07-08T00:41:00.001-04:002008-07-08T00:45:12.708-04:00Marmarth arrival!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjEWOUivnum32hGu3qdv5wD-Mx0TDMzNVE86_KoKdUb3xkB4JUlExsF5z4z3Ogrb2wDKZpDZr0w70u5cyUiV12VMhQ_ZM_Jt7vahQS9QscAC-V_msCRCQz9V7uQzAA6goIzMkA6F2vlzT/s1600-h/DSC00090.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyjEWOUivnum32hGu3qdv5wD-Mx0TDMzNVE86_KoKdUb3xkB4JUlExsF5z4z3Ogrb2wDKZpDZr0w70u5cyUiV12VMhQ_ZM_Jt7vahQS9QscAC-V_msCRCQz9V7uQzAA6goIzMkA6F2vlzT/s200/DSC00090.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220499664340016130" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>We’ve finally arrived in Marmarth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now that our eight person team has settled into the cozy cottage and surrounding tents, we’re getting to bed for an early start.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Tomorrow we’ll spend the day prospecting for fossils and getting to know our new territory! Hopefully, we’ll find many Cretaceous reptiles such as turtles, dinosaurs and crocodiles. If we’re lucky, we might stumble upon our dream fossil site: a group of pachycephalosaurs who were herded together by vicious and hungry turtles. We’ll assume that the turtles eventually died from over-eating. In addition to these fossils, we hope to find a t-rex that died in a flash flood while feeding on the massive carnage. </p> <!--EndFragment-->Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-20529240215915878572008-07-06T23:35:00.001-04:002008-07-06T23:37:41.219-04:00Arrival in Dickinson, ND for permit signing and other shenanigans.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHGPM1JXCOI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Of5a1-WcWpU/s1600-h/DSC00049.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VFQ4emEb5Hw/SHGPM1JXCOI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Of5a1-WcWpU/s200/DSC00049.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220110893686655202" /></a>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353887627903794033.post-44171323460322761742008-07-05T06:55:00.008-04:002008-07-14T21:54:03.514-04:00Day 1: Traveling<div>Eight hours and almost 600 miles later, the Peabody field crew and I stop in ever-exciting Maumee, Ohio. For some of us, this is our third annual visit to the Toledo suburb and our traditional dinner at Olive Garden (Hardly appropriate on the 4th of July) is comforting nonetheless. </div><div><br /></div><div>Our team from left: Walter Joyce, Ali Logan (me), Jacob McCartney, and Ariel Revan. </div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuL0bJwG04hS_-IrAvXNkeYqs0LkzE-df1saglCECeYmhZX3cEMQQFniGwrBzWxsVwYFZB9T50D4GDDnYV0rX2oDQ-o-g0avK4DjBwh3OBLiKFI1of-6I_Xp3aGN17y76D9jMTJA18Rxg/s1600-h/DSC00036.JPG"><br /><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuL0bJwG04hS_-IrAvXNkeYqs0LkzE-df1saglCECeYmhZX3cEMQQFniGwrBzWxsVwYFZB9T50D4GDDnYV0rX2oDQ-o-g0avK4DjBwh3OBLiKFI1of-6I_Xp3aGN17y76D9jMTJA18Rxg/s320/DSC00036.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219482818817185698" /></a>Ali Logan:http://www.blogger.com/profile/05139460769856335381noreply@blogger.com0