Field Trip

This was my 3rd field trip and it was about 10 miles away from campus. It started raining badly just as we got on the bus and it stoped when we reached the area. So the site was all wet and we had a though time reaching up at the rocks we had to analyze. This week we were suppose to make a detail strategraphic column of a portion of sedimentary rocks. We were suppose to analyze beds of rocks and include information about the bed thickness, bedding plane contacts, sedimentary stuctures, fragments of fossils, color, and approximate particle size. With those information, we will be able to find out the history behind that place and what kind of environment was it under. We concluded that those rocks showed marine environment characteristics showing that thatt part of pennsylvania few million yrs ago was covered under water, either under a river or an ocean. We manage to find mud cracks and fossils embeded in the rocks. Believe it or not, we actually managed to look at some fossils of extinct marine animals. We basically had so much fun rolling around the rocks and mud.