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Collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Marc breaks open a rock to check for fossils.
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Collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Collecting fossils and investigating rocky outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Layers and textures in this rock show patterns of sedimentation.
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Fine layers in this rock show patterns of sedimentation.
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The texture in this rock shows details of Silurian muddy sediment.
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PJ inspects trace fossils near a rocky outcrop in Door County.
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The lighter white-colored parts of this rock are trace fossils of a trail or burrow left behind by a Silurian reef dweller. Door County, WI
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Specimen bags, gloves and a few other collecting tools near a good field site in Door County.
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Paul finds a fossil during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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A large rock covered in fossils. (Door County, WI.)
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Marc finds a fossil impression during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Brachiopods were unfortunately difficult to find at Brachiopod Point in Door County, Wisconsin, autumn, 2015.
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Paul Mayer collects a fossil and Marc Lambruschi gets ready to georeference the site during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Zebra mussels on Door County Beach near Northpoint Pier.
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Some geologists might call flowers a distraction, but no harm, no foul.
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Fall is a good time for fossil-hunting in Wisconsin and the Mid-West. On colder days, biting insects leave paleontologists to their work, thinning foliage makes it easier to see rocky outcrops, and the leaves that are still around can be spectacular.
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PJ Burke finds a fossil impression.
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PJ Burke and Sharon Grant collecting fossils and investigating artistically-arranged rocks along the shores of Lake Michigan during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Paul Mayer and PJ Burke collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Investigating sedimentation in rocks (and lichen covering them) during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin in autumn, 2015.
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Fossils visible in a trail marker in Door County, Wisconsin.
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Collecting fossils and investigating reef outcrops during a trip to Door County, Wisconsin.
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Fossils in Door County, Wisconsin.
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A fossil impression visible near the Lake Michigan shore in Door County, Wisconsin.
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Silurian rocks form cliffs in Door County Wisconsin.
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North America, USA, Wisconsin, Door, Sturgeon Bay, Mathey Road Quarry. [LL]
