Monday, March 27, 2023

06 Cret DeQueen LS CertainTeed

 

  • Photo

  • Lidar Scan

  • ERA: Mesozoic
  • Period: Cretaceous (wikialpha)
  • Epoch: Aptian / Albian
  • Age: 125-100 million years ago
  • Formation: Trinity Group / DeQueen
  • Lithology: Limestone
  • Original location: 34.071232, -93.905736
  • Donor organization: CertainTeed Gypsum
  • Donor contact: Matt Porter
  • Financial support:
    • Liebelt Family Foundation
  • MacNote: Sample selected to illustrate the gray-green, mud-rich, fossiliferous limestone. Dominantly wackestone to packstone textures with cm-scale interbedded layers of grainstones indicating periods of higher energy. The dinosaurs walked across this surface during periods of low tide and subaerial exposure.

03 Paleo Midway LS AGS

Photo Lidar Scan ERA: Cenozoic Period: Tertiary Epoch: Paleocene ( wiki , alpha ) Age: 66-56 million years ago Formation: Midway Group Litho...