Page 1 - General trip photos
Page 2 - Fossils and minerals (this page)

The Red Mountain road cut rocks were formed million of years ago when North America was covered by a shallow sea. Fossils from the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian ages are found at this site. Members found a good selection of fossils, including numerous brachiapods, the pygidium of a Llandovacaste birminghamensis trilobite (used in the BPS logo), graptolites, unidentified plant stems, gastropods, a number of trace fossils, and even some nice samples of calcite and dolomite crystals.

(Photos courtesy Chris and Vicki Lais)






































And some mineral specimens:


Hematite


White calcite crystals.


Pink calcite (dolomite) crystals.