“We’re not collecting stamps here,” says Prof. Gaines, chair of the geology department at Pomona College in California. “We’re understanding the beginning of our family tree. It’s grandma in here.” Finding ancestral graves, or at least the outer edges of the cemeteries, requires simple tools: a chisel, hammer, good eyes, perhaps a magnifying glass, and patience. Profs. Gaines and Caron – the latter is curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum and a professor at the University of Toronto – pick out chunks of stone in the fossil-bearing rock band 32 metres high and hope history appears.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:27:57 +0000
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