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May 12, 2022Fossils can often be found exposed in the field, like in this photo from Svalbard. This is the imprint of the shell of an ammonite, a type of squid, roughly 150 million years old.
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May 12, 2022Students on field course on Svalbard. The mountain formation is aptly named “The Fortress”, and consists of weathered limestone from the Carboniferous period, appr. 320 million years ago.
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May 12, 2022View from the field site where I collected fossils in the summer of 2019.
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May 12, 2022Geologic field work is usually done with fairly basic equipment. Hammer and chisel are still the most important tools today, and are used like geologists have done for centuries. A magnifier is used when searching for small fossils.
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May 12, 2022An important task for a museum paleontologist is keeping the collections in order and lending out material to other researchers nationally and internationally.
