From the article: How to Travel Like a Geologist
Geologists go where the best rocks are, but you don't have to be "in the life" to visit these special places. Indeed, you may find world-class geo-destinations right under your feet that only geologists know about. Where Have You Been?
hunting, and finding fossils too
- I grew up in Great Falls Montana. That's near some famous fossil country. All through my childhood I tried to find fossils. But the rocks near home (sandstone, shale) didn't seem to have any. As a teenager I could travel greater distances. I fished and hunted a lot. One day I was hunting in some ravines ten or twenty miles north of Great Falls. The ravines cut through soft dark shale. Scattered in the bottoms of smaller side-ravines were many softball-sized spherical rocks. When broken open each those rocks (concretions) contained a complete paired fossil clam! Another fossil related experience happened when I was home from college in summer working as a laborer. The location was no more than five miles from home. I was on shovel duty by a grader leveling a gravel road. The grader turned over slab of rock revealing an obvious whole fish fossil. A moment later the slab was smashed fragments. Another time near that area I found an outcrop with fossil oyster shells. So keep looking.
- —Guest jelogan
Geology Travel Stories
- First, geology is where you live. You don't need to travel far for a story. With that said, I am interested in volcanoes. Living in Colorado Springs they are very near by. I will name some of the fields I have been to, not enough space to talk about history & age. Google & Google Earth will do that for you. We have a lot of fields here in the west, CO, NM, AZ, WY & ID to name some states. I will touch on a few that I have been to, Thirtynine Mile CO, Rio Grande Rift CO, & NM Raton Clayton Field within in it is located Capulin National Monument, Capulin is one of the best formed cinder cones in the the U.S. The San Francisco Field in AZ is a large field, Hwy. 40 runs along the southern border. WY, Yellowstone a super volcano. ID, Crater Of The Moon, location Picabo Volcanic Field & the Great Rift 62 miles long.
- —PikesPeakGuy
