March 13, 2025
CE - 3/13: Paleontology Digging up Bones-Searching for Fossi
Cuesta College Community Programs • PO Box 8106 San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-8106 Organized by Cuesta College Community ProgramsAbout this event
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Description
Study fossil forming processes and geologic dating methods. Distinguish between different fossil types, examples including altered and unaltered fossil finds, petrified wood and bones, carbon imprints, casts and molds, and trace fossils. Observe paleontologists at work in the field and lab…carefully excavating, identifying, and reconstructing their fossil finds.Well-known fossil locations in the Western U.S. are featured - accessible for visitation by the public - including sites at the famous La Brea Tar Pits in California, Ginkgo Petrified Forest and the John Day fossil beds in Oregon, Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, Ichthyosaur State Park in the deserts of Nevada, Petrified Forest National Park in the Painted Desert of Arizona, the dinosaur track ways in Colorado, and petrified trees still standing on the volcanic slopes in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Take a virtual field trip locally, traveling eastward along Highway 58 in San Luis Obispo County. The route follows a geological transect in time spanning tens of millions of years, a ‘slice in time’, reconstructing ancient shorelines of an inland sea and subsequent mountain uplift of granitic and sedimentary rock formations along fault zones within the present-day Coast Ranges. Examine marine shells embedded in ancient sandstones and shale outcrops along the field trip route, and evidence of the Ice Age mega-fauna that roamed these local terrains long ago.CLASS SCHEDULE: Subject to Change: Due to their very nature, our classes are “subject to change”. Class change notices will be sent via email to the email address on file. Please check your email OR check class status at the Community Programs website before your scheduled class.
Activity Category
Outdoors, Nature & Science
Location
Online via Zoom
Instructor
Steve Schubert
Age and Gender
Ages 18-255 · Co-Ed