Mapping and Dinosaurs

Yesterday we did another mapping exercise, this time we were at Goose Egg. Below is a picture of the site, you can see where its name comes from!

Dave's mapping partner was Kelly, here they are on top of one of the ridges.

Goose Egg is a giant anticline so there is a lot of oil under the surface. There were four oil wells at the site, they are called nodding donkeys because the head goes up and down.

Izzy's partner was Reed, they found a patch of wet bentonite so it was very clayey and fun to play with. Below are Izzy, Ben, and Reed.

Papa Blaine, Auntie Annie, and Mama Sam, our TAs.

We have 11 boys on the trip and five of them are named either Sam or David, and one of our TAs is Sam. Below, David, Sam, David, Sam, David, Sam.

The group eating lunch today at Goose Egg.

Izzy, Eric, Ari, John, and Claire were all in the same writing class freshmen fall.

Here is Ben a day later!

This afternoon we had another dinosaur day! We went to our neighbor's museum that has some dinosaur fossils and cool rocks, and then we went to the dinosaur track site they discovered.

Here is Andi with Mr. Buffalo, he's not a dinosaur.

The museum had a model fantasy town, this was one of the buildings!

Dave looking through the magnify glass.

Greybull, Wyoming.

Here is a dinosaur track from the track site, it is a little hard to see but there are three toes extending from the left side of the picture.

Our dinosaur at the track site.

Ranee and Kelly being dinosaurs.

We've been making a lot of friendship bracelets, here is Paige working on hers in the van ride.

We just finished up a barbecue with Dirty Annie's, the restaurant in town, and our neighbors who are really into geology and dinosaurs.
We add a pretty good percentage to the population of Shell! Tonight is our last in Shell at the ISU Field Camp, tomorrow we are driving to Cody and spending the night there and then we have our next segment at the K Bar Z Ranch, outside Cody.

Ice Cougar and Dragon Slayer