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| In CO National Monument looking at Bookcliffs |
I didn't until my granddaughter, Mollie and I traveled with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) into western CO. It is Late July 2013 and we are accompanied by a Paleontologist, Jonathan Cooley, a tour manager, JD Kling and four family groups; we are 6 kids and 8 parents/grandparents.
Paleontology is a complex science... a combination of geology, biology, chemistry, physics... Using each of these disciplines to investigate a site permits a plausible story, based on facts, to be developed. In our case, we are learning some of the basic principles that are applied to the discovery process. Fortunately we are led masterfully by Jonathan!
Saturday, July 20 Mollie and I drove from home (Summit County, CO) to Grand Junction, CO... a drive of less than 3 hours (including a brief stop for ice cream in Parachute!). We are staying in the Doubletree Hotel in Grand Junction. At dinner we met our fellow travelers... from New York, Chicago and Seattle.
Sunday, July 21 We hiked Split Rock Trail in Rabbit Valley and learned to distinguish bone from rock and what the landscape looked like 145 million years ago!
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