cleveland lloyd dinosaur quarry, stratigraphy

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

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Scope and Contents

Slide number
GS 01: View from above, looking south(?).
GS 02: Northerly view of quarry from Visitor Center.
GS 03: Southerly view of quarry ca. 1961(?).
GS 04: View from the quarry, looking south with the 1961 trailer Accommodation in the background.
GS 05: Close-up view of limestone cap, lying over the fossiliferous unit, which is approximately 1 meter in thickness.
GS 06: Another view of the limestone cap showing the undulating surface of the underlying fossiliferous, bentonitic shale.
GS 07: The left background may be very close to the original Princeton Quarry outline.
GS 08: Prospect near the southern end of the Quarry in the vicinity of the Princeton Quarry(?).
GS 09: Large rib in blocky shale, Quarry number 2214.
GS 10: A concretionary limestone unit with a number of bones enclosed.
GS 11: Neural spine, sauropod (?), enclosed in the softer shale unit.
GS 12: Horizon showing soft, bentonitic shale unit underlying more massive unit.
GS 13: Blocky shale horizon near the base of the fossiliferous unit. Usually has sparse fossils at least.
GS 14: Interesting shots of flat-lying, blockey shale near the base of the fossiliferous unit.
GS 15: Interesting shots of flat-lying, blockey shale near the base of the fossiliferous unit.
GS 16: Interesting shots of flat-lying, blockey shale near the base of the fossiliferous unit.
GS 17: Quarry worker, indicating that he cannot find any fossils. Pot-holing is not a good quarrying procedure.
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Dates

1950s-1990s

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

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