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cgraves67
2011-12-21 01:59:46 PM
I would add Kelleys Island in Ohio. There are some really cool Glacial Grooves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelleys_Island,_Ohio
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 02:59:01 PM
All places are prehistoric. You just happen to have built stuff on top of it.
 
The Shoveller
2011-12-21 03:20:56 PM
Raven Ridge does NOT preserve the K/T boundary. The age of those sediments is about 53-49 million years old... so early-middle Eocene (Wasatchian and Bridgerian). The NASA photo in the article is also used on the wikipedia page for the K/T boundary (Link (pops)), which is also incorrect. However, the source photo has been updated to reflect the actual age of the sediments (Link (pops)).
 
Cewley [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 03:23:19 PM
thanks subby - right up my interest alley!
 
albert71292 [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 04:00:09 PM
Surprised my house isn't on that list.
 
old_toole [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 04:26:03 PM
Cewley: thanks subby - right up my interest alley!

2nddid
Very cool, thanks subby.
 
Tentacle
2011-12-21 04:28:59 PM
No mention of Copper Canyon? It's bigger than the Grand Canyon
 
IC Stars
2011-12-21 05:15:50 PM
Makoshika State Park in Eastern Montana -- fantastic badlands where you can see the K-T boundary.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2011-12-21 06:11:46 PM
"Your Mom" mysteriously missing from list
 
aearra
2011-12-21 06:23:09 PM
Thanks Subby. Have a happy holiday for any you wish to celebrate.
 
Poundit Hardus
2011-12-21 07:19:17 PM
i4.photobucket.com
 
puddleonfire
2011-12-21 08:20:59 PM
MaudlinMutantMollusk: "Your Mom" mysteriously missing from list

---- Came to say THIS.
Amateur subby!
 
smrtone
2011-12-21 08:46:09 PM
Try the I-70 roadcut (new window) just west of Denver. It's pretty amazing.
 
Fano
2011-12-21 08:57:58 PM
Ancient San Fran, you'll have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time
 
sneathbean
2011-12-21 10:03:21 PM
Thanks subby - cool list! The Coteau des Prairies is not as flashy as some of these locations, but it's pretty cool: Link (new window)
 
Hagbardr
2011-12-21 11:23:09 PM
img542.imageshack.us

Boulder Field - Hickory Run State Park, Pennsylvania
 
unyon [TotalFark]
2011-12-22 12:41:56 AM
I live not too far away from Dinosaur Provincial Park. Camping there back in the '70s, we'd fill our pockets up with interesting fossil fragments that we'd find. I shudder to think what was lost to science forever in our playtime.
 
kth
2011-12-22 08:34:39 AM
I must be reading this wrong...

Alluvial Fan happened in 1982. It was a failure of a dam.
 
kth
2011-12-22 08:36:13 AM
But still gorgeous....
img.photobucket.com
Alluvial Fan
 
SharkaPult
2011-12-22 11:30:26 AM
My family camps summers near a strip-mine lake in the Mazon Creek area. We've found all sorts of fossils of plants and the like in there. Mostly ferns, but yeah. We had the coolest stuff at show-and-tell @ school.
 
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