foxalo
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Post by foxalo on May 30, 2017 12:12:34 GMT -8
We didn't stay out very long, but they probably would have found more. We used to find them all the time on the coal banks near my parents' home, which is where I took my kids this morning. I mentioned to my son about a week ago some of the things we could do while here, and fossil hunting was a must in his book.
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davesenesac
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Post by davesenesac on Dec 8, 2017 9:37:38 GMT -8
Snippet from my feature on this page: www.davidsenesac.com/2017_Trip_Chronicles/spring_2017-9.html
My favorite part of this small state park (Point Lobos State Reserve) with 554 land acres is Weston Beach and on many of my visits, I go no further as would be the case this day, content to work close-ups and intimate landscapes of its incredible rock strata shore. Across the road fronting the meadow shore terrace, Weston Beach appears relatively boring. A small bedrock shore cove with small loose stones without any sand. Thus in many visitor's minds not a beach at all thus pass right on by. A mile length of southern shore here is 50 to 60 million year old Cenozoic Era Paleogene Period Carmelo Formation sedimentary strata with much conglomerate containing andesite cobbles and pebbles. The colorful volcanic rocks erode out of the conglomerate rock and become smooth loose shore pebbles and cobbles with many of the latter roundish.
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enlarged vertical slice view: www.davidsenesac.com/2017_Trip_Chronicles/QR06574-06597-3x1bvq.jpg
And some cobbles:
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